In today’s Internet-connected world where technologies underpin almost every facet of our society, cyber security and forensics specialists are increasingly dealing with wide ranging cyber threats in almost real-time conditions. The capability to detect, analyze and defend against such threats in near real-time conditions is not possible without employment of threat intelligence, big data and machine learning techniques. For example, when a significant amount of data is collected from or generated by different security monitoring solutions, intelligent and next generation big-data analytical techniques are necessary to mine, interpret and extract knowledge of these unstructured/structured (big) data. Thus, this gives rise to cyber threat intelligence and analytics solutions, such as big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, to perceive, reason, learn and act against cyber adversaries tactics, techniques and procedures.
Edited by: Zheng Xu, Yong Ding