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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: The Dark Art of Alert Correlation: Extracting Attack
  Chains\n   from Chaos\n   Tags: Middle Easterns & Africans in Cyber Secur
 ity (MEACS) | Creator\n   Talk/Panel\n   When: Sunday\, Aug 9\, 12:00 - 12
 :30 PDT\n   Where: LVCCW Level 1 Hall 3 1100 (Creator Stage 7) - [1]Map\n\
 n   Description:\n\n   In modern cybersecurity\, the ability to connect is
 olated security\n   alerts into coherent\, actionable attack chains is ess
 ential. However\,\n   traditional detection methods often struggle to cont
 extualize vast\n   amounts of security data\, leaving slow and stealthy at
 tacks undetected\n   within a sea of noise and false positives. This talk 
 introduces a\n   novel approach using open-source AI models to map\, clust
 er\, and\n   correlate security alerts in order to uncover coordinated att
 acks.\n   Through clustering\, knowledge graphs\, and AI-driven correlatio
 n\, this\n   approach offers significant improvements in SOC (Security Ope
 rations\n   Center) efficiency and effectiveness. We detail the methodolog
 y\, open\n   source tools\, and results of this approach across diverse\n 
   environments\, including cloud\, telecom\, and industrial control\n   sy
 stems.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Ezz Tahoun\n\n   Ezz Tahoun is an award-winning 
 cybersecurity data scientist recognized\n   globally for his innovations i
 n applying AI to security operations.\n\n   He has keynoted\, trained & pr
 esented at BlackHat US\, Sector\, MEA\, Asia\n   & EU\, DEFCON\, SANS Summ
 its\, all the top Bsides\, Securityweek ICS\n   Conference and GISEC among
  many others.\n\n   His groundbreaking work earned him a gold edison award
  and accolades\n   from Yale\, Princeton\, Northwestern\, NATO\, Microsoft
 \, and Canada's CSE.\n\n   At 19\, Ezz began his PhD in Computer Sci at th
 e Univ of Waterloo\,\n   quickly gaining recognition through over 20 influ
 ential papers and\n   open-source tools.\n\n   His experience includes lea
 ding advanced AI security ops projects for\n   Orange CyberDefense\, Fores
 cout\, RBC\, and Huawei US.\n\n   He holds certifications such as GIAC Adv
 isory Board\, aCCISO\, CISM\,\n   CRISC\, GCIH\, CEH\, PMP and GCP-Cloud A
 rchitect\, and served as an\n   adjunct professor in cyber defense and war
 fare.\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level1_Hall3\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Middle Easterns & Africans in Cyber Security (MEACS) - LVCCW Level
  1 Hall 3 1100 (Creator Stage 7)
SUMMARY:The Dark Art of Alert Correlation: Extracting Attack Chains from Ch
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