Here is why cybersecurity industry is investing heavily in machine learning

In our ever-connected era, Cyber threats are an ever-present danger to global economies; therefore, the cybersecurity industry is investing heavily in machine learning in hopes of providing a more dynamic prevention. ABI Research forecasts machine learning in cybersecurity will boost big data, intelligence, and analytics spending to $96 billion by 2021. 

ABI Research also finds that, the government and defense, banking, and technology market sectors to be the primary drivers and adopters of machine learning technologies.