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Can it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the day she was named to the position, the new director of the intelligence community\u2019s research arm emphasized using machine learning to forecast cyberattacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou are going to need algorithms that you trust, algorithms that you understand, and ones that you can let run and not really have concerns about,\u201d said Stacey Dixon, the newly appointed head of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IntelMattersPod\/status\/1029044434342739971\">Intelligence Matters<\/a>\u201d podcast. During the interview, Dixon said machine learning was \u201cextremely important,\u201d to the intelligence community\u2019s research portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an analysis by Fifth Domain, more than half of the new challenges and programs announced by IARPA in 2018 involve machine learning or predictive analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dixon was named the head of IARPA Aug. 14, the same day the podcast was released. She was previously agency\u2019s deputy director and replaces Jason Matheny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dixon said the agency has invested in predictive analytics programs which \u201cforecast that someone is going to be attacked through cyber means.\u201d The approach uses \u201csensors\u201d \u2013 physical or analytical \u2013 that can predict which industry or entity is vulnerable to cyberattacks, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research related to the program has already spurred several forecasting models to predict cyberattacks. One automated system was based on conversations of malicious actors on the dark web and posts from cybersecurity experts on social media. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/usc-isi-i2.github.io\/papers\/kristina01.pdf\">found<\/a> to be 84 percent accurate when it came to predicting cyberattacks. Another predictive model was based on historical cyberattack data. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=3064831&#038;dl=ACM&#038;coll=DL\">found<\/a> to be 14 percent more effective than other systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the new IARPA chief also warned that predictive tools need to be honed to avoid false positives and negatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re chasing down things that really aren\u2019t going to happen all the time, its really not a very good tool. 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