Gartner currently lists machine learning at the top of its hype cycle. The market is awash with products that claim to have built a better mousetrap, that better solve common problems. While the promise of machine learning is proven, what does this new approach hold for cybersecurity? Is this a silver bullet or just more lead? Even today, spam detection via machine learning keeps Nigerian Princes, tragedy scammers, or suspicious password change emails away from your inbox. The challenge now is to transform early success into broader applicability in cybersecurity. What is Machine Learning? Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides computers with the ability to learn without being programmed. Machine learning comes to life by the data flowing through its algorithms. In theory, the richer the quality of data the better results. In practice, traditional machine learning requires two special ingredients, human intuition, and.