I think the industry is going to accelerate toward moving to the cloud, both in terms of how it utilises software and how it gets services. Some people believe that utilities are slower moving in this regard, but the proof points are going to be pretty overwhelming, I believe.

In the context of cybersecurity, machine learning speeds up the process of initial risk identification and classification, which enables security teams to better manage their incident response function, and more importantly, take preventive actions even before security threats manifest.