Machine Learning for Cyber Security Threat Prediction

MACHINE LEARNING FOR
CYBER SECURITY
THREAT PREDICTION
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................3
2.Research Background...............................................................................................................3
3.Research question.....................................................................................................................5
4.Aim:..........................................................................................................................................5
5. Objective..................................................................................................................................5
6.Deliverables..............................................................................................................................5
7. Academic Challenges..............................................................................................................6
8.Plan of Work.............................................................................................................................6
9. Resources.................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

1.INTRODUCTION
Cyber security threats refer to any malicious attack that generally aim for unlawfully access
to the information, it disrupts the information as well as damage the human life. It is becoming a
biggest issue which every sector is facing in every aspect, they are getting malicious link just by
clicking it hackers got the all data and they use it for their purpose, thus these are the life
threatening situation to anyone (Ghafir and et.al 2018). Development of the machines and tools
are efficient in making any task effective and productive, new technology emergence making the
work not only efficient but it also aims to reduce the chances for the errors and capable of
working better than human power. Artificial intelligence is the wide range of technology which
is adopted by many businesses, it is the ability of the computer and bot that is managed by the
computer system to lay out the task which is previously done by the humans as it needed the
human intelligence. Where the AI technology enables the machines and devices to simulate the
human behaviour and machine learning technology is the sub part of AI. ML allows the
machines to efficiently learns the past data instead of programming explicitly, as the main
purpose of AI is to make the computer system much smarter like human beings to solve any
problem without making of any errors (Tahsien, Karimipour, and Spachos, 2020). ML begins
with the data which can be numbers, images and other type of information, thus the data is being
prepared and analysed for using it as a training data so that Ml model can be trained on.
Cyber threats are easily seen now a day’s hackers become more active to attack the
organisational system to demand for ransom, they use various techniques to break the cyber
security layer which is causing problems in terms of life threatening issues. Emergence of the
new technologies are developed to challenge the threat attacks, in such ML is the technology that
is heavily implemented by the cyber team to predict the threats chances, it helps in obtaining the
patterns from the information so it can be used in mitigation strategy. This research report will
cover the structure where it discusses the background of study, aim, objectives, to discuss the
effectiveness of ML for predicting the cyber security threats.
2.Research Background
In UK, it is found that risk for the cyber-attacks are continually increasing, most of the
companies are claiming that they are becoming a victim of such activity. Such risks have led to
introduce some preventive measures to deal with it. Thus ML technology is being used by cyber
security team to analyse the patterns that helps in predicting the cyber security threats. ML can
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