By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Tue 14 January 2014 | tags: analysis, prediction, weis, -- (permalink)

I found a thought-provoking new paper by Robert Axelrod and Rumen Iliev thanks to a tweet by @ironfog:

interesting paper: predicting the timing of the cybers https://t.co/JmXPbbjVrf @MrMeritology @jayjacobs @hrbrmstr @alexhutton #haveNotReadYet

— Ben (@ironfog) January 14, 2014

The Science article provides a good overview of the paper ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Mon 13 January 2014 | tags: podcast, -- (permalink)

Episode 1 of the Data Driven Security Podcast is live on the site/should be in the feeds and ready for your media consumption.

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Sun 12 January 2014 | tags: book, blog, rstat, python, ipython, pandas, -- (permalink)

ClickSecurity has been doing a #spiffy job spreading the security data science love with there data hacking series. They’re using the Python data science stack and using iPython notebooks for their work and I felt compelled to reproduce at least one of ...

By Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)
Thu 09 January 2014 | tags: d3, vcdb, -- (permalink)

I work a lot with breach data and one of the things that is slowly emerging from the data is that there is no single approach that would work for every organization. In order to begin to peel away at this problem (and to work on my D3 skills), I am tapping into the VCDB data set. For those not familiar with VCDB (VERIS Community Database), it is a project started at Verizon early in 2013 (and part of my rather fun day job). VCDB scours headlines for information about security incidents and records them in the VERIS format.…

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Thu 09 January 2014 | tags: podcast, -- (permalink)

The Data Driven Security Podcast is now an official channel on Stitcher. If you’re already using Stitcher on Android or iOS to catch your favorite shows, you can now slipstream the DDS Podcast into your playlist mix at the touch of a button.

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Wed 08 January 2014 | tags: rstats, Excel, Spreadsheets, -- (permalink)

One of the myriad of reasons we created the Data Driven Security blog was to provide pointers to data analysis and visualization resources for security domain experts who may have not been exposed to these types of tools.

I’d venture a posit that most folks jump into some type ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr) and Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)
Wed 01 January 2014 | tags: book, blog, -- (permalink)

We have wrapped up the book and we are launching this website, blog and podcast to continue the discussion. But before we look forward, we thought it would be a good idea to look back at what we put into writing the book. Since we used github to manage our material, we have all the data github stores about our commits and the first thing we want to look at is the days and times of our checkins. Take a look…