Instruction: Describe the ways in which machine learning can contribute to improving cybersecurity.
Context: This question tests the candidate's understanding of the application of machine learning in enhancing security and protecting data against cyber threats.
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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: Machine learning is useful in cybersecurity when the problem involves patterns that change quickly or are too high-volume for simple manual rules alone. That includes anomaly detection, phishing classification, malware analysis, identity-risk scoring, alert prioritization, and...