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Sep 30–Oct 1, 2018: Training
Oct 1–3, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

Bot or human? Applying machine learning to combating the bot epidemic (sponsored by Oracle Dyn)

Laurent Gil (Oracle Dyn)
11:35am–12:15pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Sponsored
Location: Sutton Center Level: Beginner

What you'll learn

  • Explore bot traffic, different types of bots, and three real-world applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and defeat malicious bots

Description

Bots now make up over 50% of website traffic and have become the primary source of malicious application attacks, from DDoS to sophisticated intrusions. The ability of bad actors to disguise bot traffic as legitimate via simulated human behavior presents a challenge: organizations need to allow “good” bot and human traffic while blocking the “bad” traffic.

Laurent Gil lays out what you need to know about bot traffic, different types of bots, from the simple to the sophisticated, and three real-world applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and defeat malicious bots.

This session is sponsored by Oracle Dyn.

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Laurent Gil

Oracle Dyn

Laurent Gil is a security product strategy architect at Oracle Dyn, an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure global business unit. Previously, Laurent was the cofounder of Zenedge (acquired by Oracle in March 2018) and CEO and cofounder of Ukraine-based Viewdle, which focused on machine learning and computer vision (acquired by Google in 2012). Laurent holds a doctorate honoris causa from the Cybernetic Institute of Ukraine, an MBA from the Wharton School, an MSc in computer science and signal processing from Supélec, a postgraduate degree in management from the Collègedes Ingénieurs in Paris, and a BS in mathematics (summa cum laude) from the University of Bordeaux.