Category: Blog

  • Simplified Ransomware detection (2/2)

    Last week, we created a “dummy” dataset of number of files edited per minute in a theoretical shared folder of users’ documents. We did that as a setup to later demo some ways of detecting sudden changes to those numbers, expecting that would be one behaviour of a potential ransomware for us to detect. Let’s…

  • Simplified Ransomware detection (1/2)

    I said I would move away from the Netflows examples for a while, and so I shall. Let’s try something a bit different: Detecting Ransomware through a (very) simplistic approach. As always, this is just an exercise, a demo of the approach one could potentially use. So some things are going to be simplified here.…

  • On Domain Expertise

    Once again I will step away from purely “programming” concepts, but this is tangent to say the least. This entry is more about theory of Data Science and one particular aspect, that is the “Domain Knowledge”. Speaking the right language There are discussions out there in the Project Management field, for example, about whether or…