Machine Learning Is a Party With Camp Disco!

Send us fan mail!In this episode, Dr. Zachary Abzug, Manager and Tech Lead of Data Science at Proofpoint joins the show to discuss a machine learning enabled tool called Camp Discovery, AKA Camp Disco and the importance of the human interaction required for making use of machine learning in malware detection.Join us as we discuss:What exactly Camp Disco is and the need/idea behind its creationHow Camp Disco played a role in the discovery of Chocolatey threat activityWhy Camp Disco uses its own neural network language model instead of an existing language modelNatural Language Processing and how to teach a computer to speak “malware”    Check out these resources we mentioned:https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/engineering-insights/using-neural-network-language-model-instead-of-bert-gpt https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/asylum-ambuscade-state-actor-uses-compromised-private-ukrainian-military-emails https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/emotet-tests-new-delivery-techniques https://www.proofpoint.com/us/company/careers   Keep up with the latest tales from the threat research trenches by subscribing to DISCARDED in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts. Thanks for listening!

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