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How machine learning and AI can help reduce the cyber- attacks

Talkat BSides Cape Town 2019 · on Wednesday, 2019-12-11· [machine-learning, security]
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Claims that ML and AI already cut alerts by automating anomaly detection, spam and phishing classification, and DDoS forecasting, citing a 22% increase in malware attacks and a 200% rise in DDoS in Q1 2019 and a typical 10 days to detect a breach. Uses time‑series forecasting, SVMs, logistic regression, decision trees and deep/deep‑learning end‑to‑end models; Gmail‑style classifiers reduce spam, time series spots seasonal spikes and can flag DDoS but struggles with adaptive traffic, false positives and overfitting, and requires heavy domain data and careful deployment.

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  1. 0:00Introduction to AI and ML
  2. 2:18Defining machine learning
  3. 5:33The machine learning process
  4. 8:09Anomaly detection
  5. 10:13Addressing DDoS attacks
  6. 12:28Time series for security
  7. 18:35Phishing and classification
  8. 21:48Algorithms and decision trees
  9. 26:00Malware detection strategies
  10. 31:08AI implementation challenges
  11. 34:47Q&A and closing remarks
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