Microsoft wants to strengthen windows defender with ia

Windows Defender is a tool that is often touted by the company as Windows' primary line of defense against threats. The company continually updates it to make it more secure and offer greater protection to users. Now, it appears Microsoft is looking to use the powers of artificial intelligence to counter malware before it infects a Windows PC.

Microsoft wants to use AI to power Windows Defender

Microsoft is hosting a competition on the popular Kaggle website, where it is " challenging the data science community to develop techniques to predict whether a machine will soon be attacked with malware." Participants will receive 9.4GB of anonymous data from 16.8 million real-world machines as a training set. Using this huge data set, data scientists will be tasked with developing a model that achieves maximum precision in test data.

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A total of $ 25, 000 will be shared among the top five teams as follows:

• 1st place - $ 12, 000 2nd place - $ 7, 000 3rd place - $ 3, 000 4th place - $ 2, 000 5th place - $ 1, 000

It is important to note that this is not the first competition of its kind organized by Microsoft at Kaggle. In 2015, it offered the public a chance to win $ 16, 000 in prizes using 0.5TB of training data in a malware ranking challenge. Interestingly, the current contest is hosted by the Windows Defender ATP research team in particular, which means that the findings from this competition will be used to enhance Microsoft's line of defense against malicious threats.

Are you a user of Windows Defender? What do you think of this Microsoft initiative against malware?

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