CYBER DEFENCE PROFESSIONAL // MCIIS, CITP, MBCS, CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CASP
This month ECS (my employer) and I hosted a Splunk Hackathon at Napier University in Edinburgh. We aimed the event at 3rd-year students and above (including recent graduates) and had a great turn out.
The challenges we set are below:
Overall it was a great experience and we felt the attendee had some fun and learned a bit about data analytics and big data too!
Interesting take by Paul Bradshaw on how Machine Learning might inadvertently become a dangerous tool in organisations trying to identify whistleblowers using anomaly detection (references a previous ML presentation of mine for Insider Threat purposes).
“The point for journalists is that collections of small actions – including those which protect the whistleblower – can be just as compromising as obvious oversights like a lack of information security.”
Original Link: https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/01/16/the-machine-that-learns-how-to-stop-whistleblowers/#comment-253097