Applying Machine Learning to Improve Your Intrusion Detection System

Whether we realize it or not, machine learning touches our daily lives in many ways. When you upload a picture on social media, for example, you might be prompted to tag other people in the photo. That's called image recognition, a machine learning capability by which the computer learns to identify facial features. Other examples include number and voice recognition applications. From an intrusion detection perspective, analysts can apply machine learning, data mining and pattern recognition algorithms to distinguish between normal and malicious traffic.