Machine Learning Is a Party With Camp Disco! — DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches

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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 creation
How Camp Disco played a role in the discovery of Chocolatey threat activity
Why Camp Disco uses its own neural network language model instead of an existing language model
Natural 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

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