Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Tim Bass
In Orwellian Event Processing the discussion moved away from my original intent, which was primarily to discuss the vendor-state-of-denial regarding the prior art for processing complex events, and gravitated toward a discussion on the “inefficiencies” of rule-based systems. I was surprised learn that there are professionals who believe that there is no basis in fact [...]
Filed under: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Business Rules, CEP Terminology, CEP Tutorials, Complex Event Processing, Cybersecurity, Detection Theory, Event Processing, Event Processing Technical Society, False Positives and Negatives, Systems Engineering | 6 Comments »
Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Tim Bass
Recently we completed the installation and training of an open source Bayesian classifier to replace a rule-based approach to manage forum spam. In a nutshell, we found the rule-based approach was highly prone to both false positives and false negatives; however, a statistical approach using a Bayesian approach has turned out to be far superior. [...]
Filed under: Advanced Event Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Business Rules, CEP Terminology, CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing, Cybersecurity, Detection Theory, Event Cloud, Event Processing, Event Stream Processing, False Positives and Negatives, Open Source, Situation Models, Systems Engineering, Use Cases | 16 Comments »
Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Tim Bass
No doubt everyone has read the story where the Lower Merion Township School District remotely enabled webcams on laptops to, in their words, “locate missing laptops”. What on Earth were they thinking?
Imagine your daughter has her laptop set up in her room because she did her homework last night. She goes [...]
Filed under: Cybersecurity, Cyberstrategics | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Tim Bass
In case you have not seen this, David Drummond, Google’s SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer has written one of the best blog posts I have even read, A New Approach to China. Google is boldly going where few have ventured to go before, including the US government.
China operates as if they can bully [...]
Filed under: Cybersecurity, Cyberstrategics | 3 Comments »
Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Tim Bass
Like most of you, I am still in complete shock over Northwest Flight 253 and how our government still cannot connect-the-dots in simple intelligence matters to protect us from harm.
In this case, the well-respected father of a radical-Islamic Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reached out to the US Embassy and other organizations in an honorable [...]
Filed under: CEP News and Events, Cybersecurity, Cyberstrategics, Sensor Fusion, Situation Models, Threats and Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Posted on December 23rd, 2009 by Tim Bass
On December 21st, 2009, the White House announced that friend and colleague Howard Schmidt had been appointed to the Executive Office of the President of the United States to serve as the “Cybersecurity Czar” for the Obama administration.
I find this personally interesting because a few people (only a few, not many) contacted me earlier this [...]
Filed under: Cybersecurity, Cyberstrategics | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Tim Bass
Around 10 years ago I worked as Technical Director for SAIC as a member of an elite group of Internet security experts. I was responsible for a number of very large global financial corporations (well, actually two). The leader of our division, called The Center of Information Protection (The CIP), was a very intelligent [...]
Filed under: Agents, Analytics, CEP News and Events, Complex Event Processing, Cyber-Trading Technologies, Cybersecurity, Event Processing, Financial Services, Threats and Vulnerabilities | 5 Comments »
Posted on September 8th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Lately I have been busy with a web-based geo-targeting project. For those of you not familiar with geo-targeting, the deeper you get into geo-targeting, the more you realize how important and interesting it is. Geo-targeting is used for fraud detection, personalization, ad-targeting, content-delivery, and more. In addition, the same basic concept is used [...]
Filed under: Analytics, CEP News and Events, Complex Event Processing, Cybersecurity, Event Cloud, Event Processing, Extrusion Detection, Fraud Detection, Intrusion Detection, Network Monitoring, Open Source, Predictive Business, Process Optimization, Risk Management, Security Event Management, Sensor Fusion, Simple Event Processing, Systems Engineering, Use Cases | No Comments »
