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Building Effective Network Security Frameworks Using Deep Transfer Learning Techniques, Harsh Dhillon

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Network traffic is growing at an outpaced speed globally. According to the 2020 Cisco Annual Report, nearly two-thirds of the global population will have internet connectivity by the year 2023. The number of devices connected to IP networks will also triple the total world population's size by the same year. The vastness of forecasted network infrastructure opens opportunities for new technologies and businesses to take shape, but it also increases the surface of security vulnerabilities. The number of cyberattacks are growing worldwide and are becoming more diverse and sophisticated. Classic network intrusion detection architectures monitor a system to detect malicious …