Artificial intelligence and security

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Within the field artificial intelligence, there are many tools which we can use in the security world. On the offensive side, you have fuzzing and guessing credentials; defensively, you can have a smarter IDS. The tools are not difficult to understand or learn, either; this talk will introduce two main ideas, metaheuristic search and neural nets, show you how you can code them up, and highlight some examples of how they've been used in the real world to break and fix things.