Chapter 1: What inspired Dr. Aqib Rashid to pursue a career in technology?
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We intended to prove out that you could use CDR telemetry. So that is the structural telemetry that you obtain as a result of cleaning files and analyzing files and using that kind of data to build machine learning models. So we wanted to first prove out that end-to-end process.
Some researchers in the past had proved that it could work to some degree, but there was room for improvement in the performance there. So effectively, the MVP there became, let's first understand which bits of telemetry, if any, can be used for this process. If so, how good can we get this? I'm Dr. Akim Rashid. I am the Applied AI Lead at GlassWall.
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Who share what it takes to change an industry. I don't exactly know what to do next. It took many guys to get right. Who built the teams that have their back. A company is its people. The teams help each other achieve more. Most proud of our team. Keeping scalability top of mind. All that infrastructure was a pain. Yes, we've been fighting it as we grow. Total waste of time.
The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve, mind you. Took it off the shelf and dusted it off and tried it again. To ride the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it. It's not just about technology. All this and more on Code Story. I'm your host, Noah Labhart. And today, how Dr. Akib Rashid is helping you stop malware in its tracks.
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Chapter 2: How did Dr. Rashid's PhD contribute to his work at Glasswall?
Tell me about a mistake you made and how you and your team responded to it.
I think research and development in general, or science in general rather, is all about making assumptions and making hypotheses about certain problems or certain questions that have come to mind. And oftentimes they don't stick or they don't land as you'd expect.
For example, an assumption that we made early on in the R&D phase was that certain structural features might be more useful than others for the purposes of trying to detect malware.
But what we quickly saw and quickly found was that where we were looking at certain structural features and certain telemetry, we weren't getting the results that one would expect and one would consider commercially viable. So that obviously means you then have to go back to the drawing board and think a little deeper about the problem.
And of course, thinking further and further about the science behind all this and the research behind all this will eventually get you to the right solution. Because I don't think that there is any problem out there that is completely unsolvable. Problems are going to be very difficult and you will make mistakes along the way in trying to solve those problems.
But that is all part of the learning process, Noah. I don't think there's anybody who can claim to have developed a perfect solution the first time around.
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Chapter 3: What is Content Disarmament Reconstruction and how does it work?
Well, Akip, thank you for being on the show today. Thank you for telling your creation story at GlassWall.
Thank you, Noah. It's been great.
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