Pauline Bourmeau (Cookie)

Pauline's focus gravitates towards offensive cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and programming culture. She has a background with experience in various fields including linguistics, criminology, cybersecurity, computer engineering, and education. By blending together approaches from humanities and deep technical insight, she provides a unique lens on cyber threats and their evolution. She provides these days AI developments and trainings, to make AI accessible to all. She is the founder of the Defcon group Paris and a French vice-champion para-climber.


Session

10-24
10:15
90min
NLP deep-dive: Transformers for Text Mining and Text Generation in Cybersecurity
Pauline Bourmeau (Cookie), William Robinet

The application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become increasingly vital for cybersecurity threat intelligence and response strategies today. NLP plays a crucial role by enabling more accurate and nuanced analyses of potential threats through linguistic techniques. Among other applications, NLP allows quicker categorization of threats based on their nature – such as phishing schemes or anomalous behaviors – and enables prioritizing responses accordingly. NLP can also facilitate the development of content prediction schemes for analysts or provide powerful information extraction tools. We will cover two text-mining techniques that we believe are a good starting point with NLP for analysts and incident responders: sentiment analysis and Named Entity Recognition (NER). While sentiment analysis reveals underlying emotions or biases in social media content potentially linked to malicious activities, NER identifies critical information such as IP addresses, domains, and user details essential for correlating incidents across different data sources.

topic: hack.lu
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