SIRAcon, the annual conference for the Society of Information Risk Analysts was held September 9th and 10th. I was fortunate enough to not only attend, but I also spoke (on how to stop worrying and love math) and moderated a fantastic panel with Ali-Samad-Khan, Jack Jones and Doug Hubbard. It ... [Read more...]

This is part two of a three-part blog series on building a DGA classifier and it is split into the three phases of building a classifier: 1) Data preparation 2) Feature engineering and 3) Model selection (this post) Back in part 1, we prepared the data and we are starting with a nice clean ... [Read more...]

This is part two of a three-part blog series on building a DGA classifier and it is split into the three phases of building a classifier: 1) Data preperation 2) Feature engineering and 3) Model selection. Back in part 1, we prepared the data and we are starting with a nice clean list of ... [Read more...]

This will be a three-part blog series on building a DGA classifier and will be split into three logical phases of building a classifier: 1) Data preparation (this) 2) Feature engineering and 3) Model selection. And before I get too far into this, I want to give a huge thank you to Click ... [Read more...]