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Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security

AI in cyber security: traffic scanning and email filtering

CYB503 · Artificial Intelligence — Week 11 of 16

CourseCYB503
Week11 of 16
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This week’s topics

AI in cyber security: traffic scanning and email filtering

  1. AI in cyber security: traffic scanning and email filtering
  2. Data poisoning, deepfakes, AI-generated social engineering, adversarial attacks and dark AI

What you will be able to do

  • 5.1 Identify scenarios in which artificial intelligence can be applied as a preventative security measure.
  • 5.2 Explain the ways in which AI can be used to enhance existing cyber-attacks and provide new opportunities for attackers.
  • 5.3 Evaluate the benefits provided and risks posed by AI in the field of security.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: identify scenarios in which artificial intelligence can be applied as a preventative security measure.

Study materials

The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
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Course plan
  • Week 1: History of AI (Babbage, the Turing test), symbolic AI vs. m…
  • Week 2: Machine learning approaches: linear and logistic regression…
  • Week 3: Neural network preliminaries: biological inspiration, unive…
  • Week 4: Training neural networks: loss functions, SGD, learning rat…
  • Week 5: Neural network architectures: dense, convolutional, transfo…
  • Week 6: Building networks in PyTorch or TensorFlow/Keras; training …
  • Week 7: Evaluating trained models: train vs. test performance, over…
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Deep generative models: variational autoencoders, normalisi…
  • Week 10: CLIP and image/video generation
  • Week 11: AI in cyber security: traffic scanning and email filtering
  • Week 12: Applying Artificial Intelligence in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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