Category: Data Analysis
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Trump's Incredibly Stupid War Sets Up Mainers For A Brutal Winter
Maine uses more heating oil per capita than any other state, which means every global distillate shock impacts Mainers more than most other states. The chart, above, captures three major spikes and some smaller…
[un]prompted Spring 2026: Threat Hunting In The Matrix
At our previous employer, the global deception and detection infrastructure generates tons of events that eventually make their way into an ever-growing data lake with (as of February 2026) 22 TB of PCAPs and 32 TB of session protocol…
AI Proofing Your It/cyber Career: The Human Only Capabilities That Matter
In the past ~4 weeks I have personally observed some irrefutable things in "AI" that are very likely going to cause massive shocks to employment models in IT, software development, systems administration, and cybersecurity. I know some…
Acoustic: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP SIP/RTP Challenge with R, Zeek, tshark (& friends)
Hot on the heels of the previous CyberDefenders Challenge Solution comes this noisy installment which solves their Acoustic…
Packet Maze: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP Puzzle with R, Zeek, and tshark
It was a rainy weekend in southern Maine and I really didn't feel like doing chores, so I was skimming through RSS feeds and noticed a link to a PacketMaze challenge in the latest This Week In 4n6…
The Most Important Commodity in 2017 is Data
Despite being in cybersecurity nigh forever (a career that quickly turns one into a determined skeptic if you're doing your job correctly) I have often trusted various (not to be named) news sources, reports and data sources to provide…
Slaying CIDR Orcs with Triebeard (a.k.a. fast trie-based 'IPv4-in-CIDR' lookups in R)
The insanely productive elf-lord, @quominus put together a small package (triebeard) that exposes an API for radix/prefix tries at both the R and Rcpp levels. I know he had some personal needs for this and we both kinda need these to…
52Vis Week 2 (2016 Week #14) - Honing in on the Homeless
In case folks are wondering why I'm doing this, it's pretty simple. We need a society that has high data literacy and we need folks who are capable of making awesome, truthful data visualizations. The only way to do that is by working with…
Visualizing Survey Data : Comparison Between Observations
Cybersecurity is a domain that really likes surveys, or at the very least it has many folks within it that like to conduct and report on surveys. One recent survey on threat intelligence is in it's second year, so it sets about comparing…
Less Drama, More Encoding
Junk Charts adeptly noted and fixed this excessively stylized chart from the WSJ this…