SecurityBrief Asia - DDoS: How Big Data can help combat a real and prevalent threat:"Large scale sequence statistics can also show events with normal behaviour but when criminals attack with fake traffic, phishing attacks or other cyber assaults, the event sequence will be different illogical, meaning the criminals couldn’t predict them. For example, a bank could daily analyse a huge amount of data and a simple anomalous sequence pattern could be a valuable clue to identify and shut down an attack.
Finally, armed with Big Data and appropriate statistical models, the subtle “fingerprints” left by cyber criminals can be identified and, in a system set up for speed, criminal assaults can be thwarted before major damage is done."
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