Andrew Wicker

Biography

Andrew Wicker is a Machine Learning Engineer in the Security Division at Microsoft. His work focuses on researching and developing machine learning solutions to protect identities in the cloud. His expertise encompasses the areas of artificial intelligence, graph analysis, and large-scale machine learning. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.

Presentation Title

Presentation: Machine Learning for Cloud Security – Challenges and Opportunities

Presentation Overview

Developing signals that reliably detect security events in the cloud is a nontrivial task fraught with nuances between malicious and benign behavior. In order to make the leap from an uninteresting anomaly to an actionable security event, we take advantage of the full range of resources available, such as threat intelligence data, behavioral analytics, and human analysts. In this talk, I will discuss how Microsoft is tackling these challenges to protect identities in the cloud.