Machine Learning for Cyber Threat & Anomaly Detection
Completed by Malini Babooram
August 31, 2026
15 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Evaluate the role, strengths, and limitations of ML in cybersecurity, including its vulnerability to inference and poisoning attacks.
Build and train supervised classification and regression models on real-world cybersecurity datasets to detect malware and fraud.
Apply artificial neural networks to analyse malware binaries and classify malicious behavioural patterns using real datasets.
Construct network anomaly detection models using KNN and One-Class SVM to identify outlier traffic and detect attacks.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Network Security
- Category: Deep Learning
- Category: Unsupervised Learning
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Analytical Skills
- Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
- Category: Feature Engineering
- Category: Cyber Security Assessment
- Category: Classification Algorithms
- Category: Malware Protection
- Category: Fraud detection
- Category: Machine Learning
