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AI-Driven APT Detection Platform

Category: Cybersecurity / AI Role: Security Researcher & ML Engineer Stack: Python, TensorFlow, ELK, Pandas

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Overview

Design a professional, dark-themed cybersecurity portfolio section that presents an advanced AI-driven system for detecting Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) in enterprise networks. The project represents a realistic SOC-oriented solution, combining machine learning, behavioral analysis, and threat intelligence to detect stealthy, long-term cyberattacks that evade traditional signature-based systems.

Values & Objectives

  • Detect low-and-slow APT attacks in real time
  • Reduce false positives compared to classic IDS/IPS
  • Provide actionable alerts for SOC analysts
  • Support explainable AI (XAI) for security decisions

Target Audience

Designed for Security Operations Centers (SOC) in medium-to-large enterprises to assist analysts in identifying stealthy APT campaigns before damage occurs.

Technical Architecture

// AI & Tech Stack

  • Anomaly Detection: Isolation Forest, Autoencoders (Unsupervised)
  • Classifiers: Random Forest, XGBoost (Supervised)
  • Data Ingestion: NetFlow, PCAP, System Logs (ELK Pipeline)
  • Explainability: SHAP values for alert justification

Features Extracted

The system engineers features from raw traffic to identify malicious patterns:

  • Temporal behavior patterns (beaconing)
  • Privilege escalation indicators
  • Command & Control (C2) anomalies
  • Lateral movement detection via sequence patterns

Impact

This solution improves SOC efficiency by filtering noise and highlighting high-confidence threats with AI-assisted decision making, serving as a scalable and production-ready concept for modern defense.

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