As with any information technology, advances and developments are occurring at a rapid pace. As a cyber security professional, it is your responsibility to stay on top of these so that you can employ them in your work. Interviewers will ask you about these advancements to see how current your information and knowledge are. They want to make sure you are aware of new tip methods used by hackers to attack systems and newly developed techniques you can employ to prevent this. Interviewers may ask you about this even if they are not familiar with cognitive cyber security.

"Cognitive cybersecurity is a newly developed technique that takes advantage of artificial intelligence, or AI technologies patterned on human thought processes to identify cyber security threats and protect an organization's IT systems. These self-learning systems use techniques such as data mining, pattern recognition, and natural language processing to simulate a human brain and develop countermeasures to cyber attacks. The advantage of cognitive cybersecurity systems is they work much faster than a human in detecting and addressing a cyber attack."

"While I've heard about cognitive cybersecurity and understand that it is a technique that employs artificial intelligence to prevent cyber-attacks, I've never used it. Intuitively I understand the benefits it could offer due to AI's ability to quickly analyze large amounts of data and develop a solution to a cyber threat or attack. If your organization is considering employing this, I can quickly learn about it due to my background in cyber security as well as my familiarity with artificial intelligence techniques."