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Cybersecurity as a career in Nuclear Power plants began shortly after 2001 whenthe Nuclear Regulatory Commission released a varied series of orders intending toincrease the protection of the computer systems at the nuclear power plants. It was notun (More)
zpete012 wrote: The Human Factor
The Human factor in cybersecurity refers to the fact that all these high-tech systems are fine, but a chain is only as good as its weakest link. In the cybersecurity "chain" individual humans are by far the weakest link. You can have passwords reset (More)
SCADA systems are commonly used today to manage all levels of infrastructure.SCADA stands for "Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition." These systems are alsocalled "ICS", or Infrastructure Control Systems. They are used today in all types of mod (More)
Naive Bayes assumes every feature is independent. For spam detection, that's provably false — words in a sentence are obviously correlated. The model works well anyway. Figuring out why a wrong assumption still produces a right answer taught me (More)
A rule-based system catches the DDoS attack you've already seen. An attacker who stays under your volumetric threshold walks past it. Machine learning changes the question from "is traffic above X requests per second" to "does this traffic look s (More)