Cybersecurity : the intelligent discovery of malicious bots

Abstract

This thesis proposes a methodological approach named CySecML, which provides a framework for developing intelligent ML-based cybersecurity solutions that can assist cyber threat intelligence (CTI) procedures to effectively discover cyber threats launched by bots on IAPs. The CySecML methodology is based on two components - data preparation and the InternetBotDetector model, as it aims to optimise existing techniques that include data quality checks, feature selection and ML on cybersecurity data sets. To provide proof-of-concept of this methodology, two different IAPs namely - online social networks (OSNs) and network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) were chosen to discover bot cyberattacks.