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Hands-On Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

You're reading from   Hands-On Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Safeguard your system by making your machines intelligent using the Python ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788992282
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Soma Halder Soma Halder
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Sinan Ozdemir Sinan Ozdemir
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Preface 1. Basics of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity FREE CHAPTER 2. Time Series Analysis and Ensemble Modeling 3. Segregating Legitimate and Lousy URLs 4. Knocking Down CAPTCHAs 5. Using Data Science to Catch Email Fraud and Spam 6. Efficient Network Anomaly Detection Using k-means 7. Decision Tree and Context-Based Malicious Event Detection 8. Catching Impersonators and Hackers Red Handed 9. Changing the Game with TensorFlow 10. Financial Fraud and How Deep Learning Can Mitigate It 11. Case Studies 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Modeling

This is a simple model that stocks in historical data features (the ones listed in the Data parsing section) that are associated with Windows logs. When a new feature parameter comes in, we see whether this is a new one by comparing to the historical data. Historical data could include AD logs with res to the features from over a year ago. The AD event that we will use for this purpose is 4672.

For the purposes of a use case, we will only choose the privilege feature. A list of privileges could be as follows:

  • SeSecurityPrivilege
  • SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege
  • SeLoadDriverPrivilege
  • SeBackupPrivilege
  • SeRestorePrivilege
  • SeDebugPrivilege
  • SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege
  • SeImpersonatePrivilege

We store in the historical database all privileges that the user account had in the past year, such as the write privilege and the read privilege. When a new privilege is seen to be invoked...

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