Making sense of SCuBA data with metrics, analytics, and machine learning

Making sense of Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) data with metrics, analytics and machine learning

Speaker: Peter Chew

One hour CPE - Lunch from Nusenda Café included

Friday, 28, 20235 11:30 - 1:00 PM

Abstract: Faced with the constant threat of crippling cyber-attacks, governments are making significant efforts to understand the threats and beef up defenses against them. An example is the work being done by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), MITRE and others, which has resulted in the MITRE ATT&CK framework and the Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Project; SCuBA is targeted to help U.S. Federal agencies improve their cybersecurity posture. In this presentation, I present a prototype I’ve developed that allows for automated alerts and reporting based on SCuBA data, showing how widely used enterprise business intelligence software can be used for functions from displaying simple trends and metrics to advanced machine learning for anomaly detection and prediction. Attendees will see examples of how artificial intelligence can be used and deployed on an enterprise level to lead to actionable insights.

About our speaker: Dr. Peter Chew is the President of Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., a consulting firm in Albuquerque, NM. As part of his work with Galisteo, he provides services in data and text analytics, national security, and business process improvement to clients in the public and private sector.

Dr. Chew's current work includes projects focused on making sense of large datasets. He is the inventor on several patents for uses of statistics and informatics for improved analytical methods in finance and Natural Language Processing (NLP). His work has also included data analytics to support fraud investigations, and research into disinformation related to U.S. national security.

Prior to Galisteo, Dr. Chew served as a Senior Manager at Moss Adams LLP (formerly Neff + Ricci LLP), the largest public accounting office in New Mexico, and at Price Waterhouse in the United Kingdom and Russia, where he participated in financial and technology audits of a variety of local and international organizations. Dr. Chew also served for over five years on the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, leading original research and development in data analytics.

Dr. Chew has a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature with subsidiary Polish from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London, and an M.St. in Slavonic Studies and a D.Phil. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Oxford. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. He is author of “Digital Disinformation: Computational Analysis of Culture and Conspiracy Theories in Russia and Eastern Europe”, a book published in 2023.

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