One common requirement for users of Elasticsearch is to have automatic alerts sent out whenever some query gets matched, or when some other condition gets satisfied. In fact, Yelp have come up with a python-based solution for this in the form of Elastalert, which at time of writing, is extremely popular with over 5.5K stars … Continue reading Is it Elastalert? No – it’s NiFi!!
Maybe the link between your smartphone keyboard and current machine learning research in cybersecurity is not apparent at first glance, but the technology behind both is extremely similar: both leverage deep learning architectures called Recurrent Neural Networks [RNNs], specifically a type of RNN called Long Short Term Memory [LSTM]. One of the main advantages of … Continue reading What do Smartphone Predictive Text and Cybersecurity have in common?
A big part of what we do at CyberSift is anomaly detection. The recent WannaCry attack highlighted the growing threat of ransomware in the security landscape. The WannaCry authors may have made amateur mistakes, and there may be more stealthy and profitable attacks than WannaCry, but the negative impact it has had on Windows users … Continue reading Anomaly detection vs Ransomware
