Introduction to Naïve Bayes in Cybersecurity

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
7 min readMar 17, 2019

With the increasing threat of cybersecurity attacks, we are seeing the rise of security analytics, and where systems such as Splunk, QRadar and HPE Arcsight are used to collect, analyse and detect threats. Normally human analysts are used to make sense of the alerts created, but they are often increasingly overloaded by the number of alerts and possible threats. Thus machine learning can be used to make sense of…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.