Data Lakehouse

The Data Lakehouse Post 2 – The Data Lakehouse Itself

In my previous blog post, I ranted a little about database technologies and threw a few thoughts out there on what I think a better data system would be able to do. In this post, I am going to talk a bit about the concept of the Data Lakehouse. The ... Read More

The Data Lakehouse Post 1 – My Database Wishlist – A Rant

In 2015, I wrote a book about the Security Data Lake. At the time, the big data space was not as mature as today and especially the intersection of big data and security wasn’t a well understood area. Fast forward to today, people are talking about to the “Data Lakehouse“ ... Read More
Use of AI for Cyber Security in the Intelligence Community

Use of AI for Cyber Security in the Intelligence Community

This post is about capturing my talking points from the recent conference panel on the “Use of AI for Cybersecurity” at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) conference. You can find my musings on the term AI in my previous blog post. Building an AI Powered Intelligence Community (Click ... Read More

No Really – What’s AI?

Last week I was speaking on a panel about the “Use of AI for Cybersecurity” at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) conference on “Building an AI Powered Intelligence Community”. It was fascinating to listen to some of the panels with people from the Hill talking about AI. I ... Read More

Machine Learning Terminology – It’s Really Not That Hard

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I was just reading an article from Forrester research about “Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Fraud Management”. Interesting read until about half way through where the authors start talking about supervised and unsupervised learning. That’s when they lost a lot of credibility: Supervised learning makes decisions directly. Several years ago, Bayesian ... Read More

The Need For Domain Experts and Non Trivial Conclusions

In my last blog post I highlighted some challenges with a research approach from a paper that was published at IEEE S&P, the sub conference on “Deep Learning and Security Workshop (DLS 2019)“. The same conference featured another paper that spiked my interest: Exploring Adversarial Examples in Malware Detection. This ... Read More

Research is “Skewing up”

Over the weekend I was catching up on some reading and came about the “Deep Learning and Security Workshop (DLS 2019)“. With great interest I browsed through the agenda and read some of the papers / talks, just to find myself quite disappointed. It seems like not much has changed ... Read More

Causality Research in AI – How Does My Car Make Decisions?

Before even diving into the topic of Causality Research, I need to clarify my use of the term #AI. I am getting sloppy in my definitions and am using AI like everyone else is using it, as a synonym for analytics. In the following, I’ll even use it as a ... Read More
We dont have artificial intelligence (yet) Algorithms are getting smarter, but experts are more important Stop throwing algorithms on the wall - they are not spaghetti Understand your data and your algorithms Invest in people who know security (and have experience) Build systems that capture expert knowledge Think out of the box, history is bad for innovation

AI & ML IN CYBERSECURITY – Why Algorithms Are Dangerous

Join me for my talk about AI and ML in cyber security at BlackHat on Thursday the 9th of August in Las Vegas. I’ll be exploring the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to show some of the ‘dangerous’ mistakes that the industry (vendors and practitioners alike) ... Read More
Security Analyst Summit 2018 in Cancun – AI, ML, And The Sun

Security Analyst Summit 2018 in Cancun – AI, ML, And The Sun

Another year, another Security Analytics Summit. This year Kaspersky gathered an amazing set of speakers in Cancun, Mexico. I presented on AI & ML in Cyber Security – Why Algorithms Are Dangerous. I was really pleased how well the talk was received and it was super fun to see the ... Read More