Practical cybersecurity training for students
ThreatDefence has been working with TAFE NSW and Macquarie University to provide practical cybersecurity training to students.
The company’s SecOps platform is being used to create a virtual security operations centre (SOC) environment — putting students into security analyst shoes, and utilising real-world data and real cybersecurity attacks observed in the past.
The ongoing shortage of cybersecurity professionals raises questions about how to best utilise these people — especially given that many security analysts continue to spend hours on repetitive investigations and reviews.
ThreatDefence believes that human analysts and AI should work together, making AI responsible for many day-to-day tasks such as running ongoing investigations, review of alerts and detection of anomalies.
It therefore designed Avesa, a natural language AI model designed to help SOC analysts to quickly investigate anomalies picked up by security tools. It provides insights and step-by-step guidance for handling alerts, incidents and investigations, and is immediately available to all users as part of the SecOps platform.
Going forward, SOC analysts will be spending more time as AI developers/designers/data scientists, fine-tuning AI and defining new ways for AI to detect threats.
Avesa can help analysts through investigations and reviews, communicating with an analyst in natural language and guiding them as they progress through investigations. It can close alerts automatically, allowing analysts to focus on what matters most.
In addition, Avesa has been equipped with knowledge of hundreds of real cyber attacks observed in the field. Every day, it continues to learn from analyst actions and from real-world data seen across ThreatDefence deployments.
The company will continue building Avesa to become a fully functioning SOC team member, taking over most Level 1 analyst actions, and providing hand-in-hand assistance to Level 2 and Level 3 analysts.
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