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Kessel, E (2020)

Benford’s law: Potential applications for insider threat detection

Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Insights (SEI) Blog, last accessed 3 March 2023.

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Abstract: Detecting anomalous network activity is a powerful way to discover insider threat activities. It is time consuming, however, to establish baseline traffic and process traffic data. This blog post explores how a mathematical law, already used in forensic accounting, may help detect insider activity without the effort of traditional anomaly detection.


Bibtex:
@misc{, author = {Emily Kessel}, title = {Benford’s law: Potential applications for insider threat detection}, year = {2022}, url = {https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/benfords-law-potential-applications-insider-threat-detection/}, }


Reference Type: Blog

Subject Area(s): Computer Science