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Machine learning–based intrusion detection systems often look impressive in notebooks but fall apart when applied to real network traffic.The problem usually isn’t the algorithm, it’s the design assumptions behind the system. I’m currently building a...

Jan 15 · 2 min read · building-zeekguard.hashnode.dev  
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