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Data Science for Cyber Security- Opportunities vs. Challenges

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Ritvi Sharma
Data Science for Cyber Security- Opportunities vs. Challenges

The field of cybersecurity — both offensive and defensive security has come along a long way since the first computer virus called Creeper, created by Bob Thomas in 1971, that successfully disguised itself to move from one host to another within the intranet and leaving its trail on the hosts. The program was a research project, and it was not intended to harm anything.


In today’s era, where we have a massive spider web of internet, the attack surface is huge, and we are not talking about simple programs but advanced persistent threats. They are advanced because the attackers/hackers have a full spectrum of intelligence-gathering techniques at their disposal. They are persistent because they like to follow a ‘low-and-slow’ approach to intrude and maintain long-term access on the target devices. They are threats because they have both capability and intent to harm.


On the other hand, Data Science, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI) with its sub-domains like Machine Learning and Deep Learning are making tremendous progress in many business areas like Sales and Marketing, Product Recommendation, Image Classification, Risk Analysis, Fraud Detections, Autonomous driving, and the list goes on.


I have been working in the Cyber Security industry for a while, and now I have also gained some knowledge and professional skills in Data Science. I used to always pause and ponder- where is that perfect intersection or connection of Data Science and Security. If you browse the internet to search for articles, research papers, and more importantly datasets to work on network/cyber security area, the chances of finding what you want or need are lower as compared to other areas.


Both data science and Cyber security jobs are in high demand. The mix of these two skillsets will definitely give you more strengths to become marketable. Besides the big names like Symantec and McAfee, there are many companies that are trying to pioneer and invent predictive models in cyber security space. Some of those companies are Cylance (now acquired by BlackBerry), Darktrace, Crowdstrike, Carbon Black (acquired by VMware), Obsidian Security, and more. You can already realize that- if big companies are acquiring the start-ups in billions of dollars, undoubtedly that subject area is hot in the market.


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