William Hill uses machine learning to fight off 'constant' cyber attacks
'A machine can learn what's normal and can spot anomalies more easily than a thousand people,' CTO Finbarr Joy tells Computing

Bookmaker William Hill is deploying machine learning techniques to help protect its services and its customers from "constant" cyber attacks and other threats from hackers. That's according to Finbarr...
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