The Cybersecurity Threat Landscape, in Four Families

Malware, social engineering, network intrusion, and fraud and abuse, the four broad threat families this course is organised around, and the 2002 Paul Graham spam classifier case study that shows why a learned model outlasts a hand-written rule list.

~5 min total·4 quadrants of structured content

By the end of this topic, you will

List the four threat families and the unit of this course that addresses each
Summarise the Spam Arms Race case study and what it established about learned classifiers
Explain why extreme class imbalance is characteristic of fraud and abuse specifically

Quadrant 1 · e-Tutorial

Video lectures and walkthroughs

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Quadrant 2 · e-Content

Articles and case studies

The Cybersecurity Threat Landscape, in Four Families

Nearly every threat a security team meets falls into one of four families, and each one favours a different kind of model. That mapping is why this course is organised the way it is.

Quadrant 3 · Web Resources