SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling

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Christopher Crowley, a SANS Senior Instructor, has 25 years of industry experience managing and securing networks. He has authored numerous courses and is considered a leading expert in building an effective SOC.
Learn moreTimothy Garcia works as an Information Security Engineer for a Fortune 100 financial institution, where he provides security consulting to project teams to ensure security of IT operations and compliance.
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GPTs (Generative Pretrained Transformers) based on Large Language Models are great for a lot of challenges. But they're not trained to find outliers within your log data.
In this brief, informative, and useful session, Christopher Crowley will discuss the concept of a variational autoencoder, then show how you could implement this to train an autoencoder based on your logs. After training on your log information, you would then implement the concept to look for outliers within your log data, to surface weird things to analysts for review.
There will be about 20 minutes of theory, and about 30 minutes of practical demonstration using a jupyterlab notebook, python, and tensorflow. Even if you're not a programmer, this will be a worthwhile session to understand what's possible with machine learning and your own log information.
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Christopher Crowley
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