Cyberstrategics

Back in the days when I was happily spending time on the operations floor in computing centers, we always observed that the greatest security threats to our systems were well-intended operators who make simple mistakes.  No hacker or criminal ever brought down a network like the bored network guy on the late shift who decided [...]

Filed under: Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Cyberstrategics, Detection Theory, False Positives and Negatives, Risk Management, Security Event Management, Simple Event Processing, Threats and Vulnerabilities, Use Cases | No Comments »

Here is an excellent Google TechTalk by Dr. Majorie Shapiro (LBL & LHC ATLAS), June 18, 2007, on processing complex events at the LHC called, Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis.
This is really what I would call “real-time CEP.”  Bean collisions at the [...]

Filed under: CEP News and Events, CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing, Detection Theory, Event Processing, Event Stream Processing, Sensor Fusion, Situation Models, Use Cases | 4 Comments »

Here is one of my favorite news stories of the week, Guilty Plea for Man Behind Creative E-Trade Scam.
In this funny story, Michael Largent, 23, of Plumas Lake, CA, wrote a simple  Internet script that opened more than 58,000 online accounts at places like E-trade and Schwab.   Largent used fake names to automatically open [...]

Filed under: Complex Event Processing, Cybersecurity, Detection Theory, Financial Services, Fraud Detection, Use Cases | 1 Comment »

Using NIST as computer science reference, an online algorithm is an algorithm that processes data (including events) element-by-element (and event-by-event), serially without having the entire problem space available from the beginning.  In contrast, an offline algorithm is provided the entire problem set from the start.
Hence, real-time event processing applications generally involve online processing.  Offline processing is useful when creating models [...]

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Detection experts understand that the optimal detection design and architecture is generally a combination of both signature and anomaly detection engines.   In event processing, signature detection involves the real-time pattern matching analysis of events.   A core advantage of signature detection is that basic pattern matching models are easy to understand and develop [...]

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For archiving purposes, I have uploaded 24 public CEP presentations that I presented over an 18 month period at various conferences from March 14, 2006 to September 21, 2007.  These presentations can be viewed here.  For example, my first public CEP presentation:
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: event processing)
So far, I have placed [...]

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This is a continuation of The Genesis of Complex Event Processing: Asymmetric Capabilities and CEP, Event Noise and Asymmetric Event Processing where I have been discussing the motivation behind CEP and adaptive analytics in cyberspace.
Around the same time that Professor Luckham and his team was working on CEP applications in network management and security management, [...]

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In The Genesis of Complex Event Processing: Asymmetric Capabilities I introduced the abstract concept of “asymmetric processing capabilities” to describe the foundations of complex event processing.   If you take a few moments to review the first CEP projects from Stanford University, you will see that the application of CEP was toward  solving myriad asymmetric event [...]

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