Last year, a “security battle” was held in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge conference in Las Vegas. The “security battle” was all about a simulation of both hacking attempts and a counter attack blocking. But… both ‘hackers’ and ‘security experts’ were actually smart ‘bots’ designed by contesting universities computer science labs all across the world. Are we witnessing the demise of what was the glorious arena were honest security analysts fought bravely against courageous hackers? In this talk we will try to confront the big issue of machine learning and how we can find a way to harness its power so that humans won’t have to step aside and still play a major role in cyber protection and beyond. Spoiler alert: there is still hope…