2018 AFCEA TechNet Augusta Conference and Expo

AFCEA Augusta-Fort Gordon Chapter Course 3: "Fighting Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) with AI" (Room Lamar A)

21 Aug 18
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Tracks: Continuing Education, Greater Augusta Chapter Courses

Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU:  A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, CySA+ and CASP.  1 GIAC CPE. 1 Logical Operations CFR CEC.  

Cyberattacks have become more sophisticated than ever before and traditional cyber defense tools can no longer scale to protect today's complex organizational networks.  Bad actors are using DGAs to provide malware with new domains on demand or domains on the fly.  DGAs are commonly used by many hackers to communicate and exfiltrate data from your networks.  They are designed to circumvent traditional cyber defenses and have been extremely successful.

Booz Allen and NVIDIA have partnered together to test some of the latest GPU driven machine intelligence techniques on Cyber use cases.  This session will discuss how to identify Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) through network monitoring, environments for testing, what types of data collected and trained on, and what frameworks and software were used to test and evaluate this model.