iViz Tech Solutions : AI based Hacking, ON Demand
Quite an interesting concept of using AI to simulate Human hacker(s) to attack a system to detect vulnerabilities and fix them. As per my understanding, its almost an impossible task to emulate even a lay man's brain. Then is it possible at all to think like a hacker? Hackers hired to help companies discover internal security threats may soon be out of a job. Just ask IDG Ventures India, which pumped $2.5 million into iViz Tech Solutions, an Indian startup that promises on-demand software that does penetration testing, or simulated attacks on systems, to detect network weaknesses much in the way a hacker would. Incubated in one of India's top technology institutes in 2005, iViz develops artificial intelligence-based products that simulate an intelligent hacker to detect the security flaws in a system or network and suggest corresponding remedies. Company co-founders Bikash Barai and Nilanjan De, graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology–Kharagpur, s...