The State Department is developing data visualization and artificial intelligence tools meant to help its cyber analysts quickly respond to emerging threats.
Manny Medrano, the director of cyber monitoring and operations at the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, said his office plans to develop a minimum viable product by the end of the year for Defense Cyber Operations, a program meant to help analysts process incoming cyber data.
“Right now, we have a lot of data that we’re ingesting, and then we’re trying to work with our different partners within the private sector, our Five Eyes and the interagency as well, to make sure what we’re doing right is making sense of the data — and then also leveraging the great technology capabilities that we have, in order to automate and then give some of that time back to the analyst to do more of that analytical work,” Medrano said Thursday at NextGov/FCW’s Government & AI Summit.
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