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Q&A Discussion for the Machine Learning (ML) block.
Logan MacLaren Senior Red Team Engineer, GitHub
Logan is a Senior Red Team Engineer at GitHub where he spends his time finding out how to best break (and fix) security controls. When not hacking on GitHub itself, Logan can be found doing security research focused on open source projects or learning and refining skills with CTF challenges!
François Labrèche Senior Data Scientist, Sophos
François Labrèche is a Senior Data Scientist at Sophos, who focuses on applying machine learning approaches to research problems related to security alerts and vulnerabilities. He focuses on using machine learning to improve the prioritization of alerts and vulnerabilities, in the context of XDR and vulnerability management. He explores the use of OSINT sources and the dark web in assessing the importance of newly published vulnerabilities.
He has a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique de Montréal, and has published research papers on the topics of spam detection, malware analysis, threat research and machine learning applied to cybersecurity. He has presented at ACSAC 2024, CAMLIS 2022, BSides Montreal 2021, University College London and École Polytechnique de Montréal, and has published papers in conferences such as the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).