Today is the grand finals of DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), where seven teams pit their technology against each other at the largest annual hacker conference in the world – DEF CON 24 – in Las Vegas. And the team with the best autonomous security tech will win $2 million. The field of cybersecurity is currently dominated by human experts, who identify and remediate new flaws in security protocols and emerging threats as they emerge. However, discovering a new security flaw and successfully deploying a solution can take up to a year. Solving this slow reaction cycle is why DARPA created this challenge. The CGC seeks…

This story continues at The Next Web