Cylance is disrupting the legacy antivirus (AV) model. Ryan Permeh says machine learning is the only way to combat todays attackers. Machine learning can identify malicious programs with an accuracy of 99.7 percent. The WannaCry ransomware was a great example of where machine learning has made a difference, he says. The best way to think about the value of machine learning, is that it works well on zero-day threats, rather than on top-level threats.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3209740/using-ai-to-spot-malware-patterns.html