CODEX
Data Science for Cyber Security
Using Machine Learning to Identify, Classify, and Neutralize Hacks
This past week I found a job listing for “Expert Threat Data Scientist” at a prestigious company based out of Oregon. The job title immediately intrigued me because I had never seen those two specialties put together.
A data scientist working in cyber security?
So I immediately did some research — partly to be able to apply to the job (the Pacific Northwest is my favorite region in the country), and partly to see where this rabbit hole took me. Applying data science principles to protecting the data itself seemed like such an interesting topic, so I explored deeper. We should set the scene so we can see how these two worlds collide.
Data is being created at unprecedented levels. The last two years account for 90% of data ever created — which means that data creation is growing at an exponential rate. This includes Instagram photos, Tik Tok videos, browsing histories, shopping…
