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Combating Cyber Attacks in Cloud Systems Using Machine Learning

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One of the crucial but complicated tasks is to detect cyber attacks and their types in any IT networking environment including recent uptake of cloud services.

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  1. Central Queensland University, QLD, 4702, Australia

    Md Tanzim Khorshed, A. B. M. Shawkat Ali & Saleh A. Wasimi

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Khorshed, M.T., Ali, A.S., Wasimi, S.A. (2014). Combating Cyber Attacks in Cloud Systems Using Machine Learning. In: Nepal, S., Pathan, M. (eds) Security, Privacy and Trust in Cloud Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38586-5_14

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