Sophos Announces 4 New Open Artificial Intelligence Developments>
IT Voice – Gupta Vikas
MUMBAI, India â Dec. 17, 2020 â Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced four new open Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments to help broaden and sharpen the industryâs defenses against cyberattacks, including datasets, tools and methodologies designed to advance industry collaboration and cumulative innovation. This move accelerates a key Sophos objective to open its data science breakthroughs and make the use of AI in cybersecurity more transparent, all with the aim of better protecting organizations against all forms of cybercrime.

SOREL-20M, a joint project between SophosAI and ReversingLabs, is a production-scale dataset containing metadata, labels and features for 20 million Windows Portable Executable files (PE). It includes 10 million disarmed malware samples available for download for the purpose of research on feature extraction to accelerate industry-wide improvements in security. SophosAIâs Impersonation Protection is designed to protect against email spearphishing attacks, where influential people are impersonated to trick recipients into taking some harmful action for the benefit of the attacker. SophosAI has also built a set of epidemiology-inspired statistical models for estimating the prevalence of malware infections in total, which enables Sophos to estimate â and in turn enabling a better chance to find â the needles in a PE file haystack. ophosAI has developed a new method for automatic signature generation, called YaraML, thatâs significantly different from previous options by taking an AI based approach to the problem. SophosAI directly âcompilesâ full-fledged, industrial strength machine learning models, the kinds used in commercial security products, into signature languages, essentially allowing AI to âwriteâ the signatures.
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