McAfee Adaptive Threat Protection is a retired artificial intelligence system that was developed by McAfee and deployed by the Canada Revenue Agency to evaluate software and documents for potential maliciousness. The system used supervised machine learning techniques to identify and flag potentially harmful files and software that could pose security risks to government IT infrastructure and employee devices.
This system was designed to protect Government of Canada employees by automatically scanning and assessing files for threats before they could compromise agency systems. The technology analyzed software and documents using learned patterns from vendor-provided datasets to classify items as safe or potentially malicious.
It is important to note that this system has been retired and is no longer in active use. The system did not process personal information about individuals, focusing instead on technical threat assessment. McAfee, the vendor that developed this technology, provided the underlying datasets and machine learning models used by the system.
