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EP50 The Epic Battle: Machine Learning vs Millions of Malicious Documents

EP50 The Epic Battle: Machine Learning vs Millions of Malicious Documents

FromCloud Security Podcast by Google


EP50 The Epic Battle: Machine Learning vs Millions of Malicious Documents

FromCloud Security Podcast by Google

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Guest: Elie Bursztein, security, anti-abuse and privacy researcher @ Google Topics: This episode draws on a talk available in the podcast materials. Could you summarize the gist of your talk for the audience? What makes the malicious document problem a good candidate for machine learning (ML)? Could you have used rules? “Millions of documents in milliseconds,” not sure how to even parse it - what is involved in making it work? Can you explain to the listeners the motivation for reanalyzing old samples, what ground truth means in ML/detection engineering, and how you are using this technique? How fast do the attackers evolve and does this throw ML logic off? Do our efforts at cat-and-mouse with attackers make the mice harder for other people to catch?  Does massive-scale ML detections accelerate the attacker's evolution? Resources: The RSA talk “Malicious Documents Emerging Trends: A Gmail Perspective” “EP40 2021: Phishing is Solved?” episode Elie’s talks on his site
Released:
Jan 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Cloud Security Podcast by Google focuses on security in the cloud, delivering security from the cloud, and all things at the intersection of security and cloud. Of course, we will also cover what we are doing in Google Cloud to help keep our users' data safe and workloads secure. We’re going to do our best to avoid security theater, and cut to the heart of real security questions and issues. Expect us to question threat models and ask if something is done for the data subject’s benefit or just for organizational benefit. We hope you’ll join us if you’re interested in where technology overlaps with process and bumps up against organizational design. We’re hoping to attract listeners who are happy to hear conventional wisdom questioned, and who are curious about what lessons we can and can’t keep as the world moves from on-premises computing to cloud computing.