This is one of the talks that will be presented at the March meeting, pic very related.
Finding network anomolies is becoming more and more difficult as there are literally terabytes of information to sort through. This research offers possibility of breaking behavior up into machine and user generated content and then gives ability to see how ‘predicatble’ any given traffic is. Looking into the behavior of the traffic can shine light on very regular activity (eg: malware beacons) as well as completely random activity.
Nick has two loves in life, one is wolves and the other is wolf shirts. Legend says that he is an incident responder for a large company, but other legends say that he hopes to be wolf sometime.