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Jan Kohout

Research Engineer

Cognitive Threat Analytics

Jan is a research engineer at Cisco Systems, Cognitive Threat Analytics teams. His research is focused on applications of machine learning in computer networks security.

Jan holds master's degree in Theoretical computer science from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and he is currently pursuing a PhD in Information science and computer engineering at Czech Technical University.

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October 20, 2016

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SECURITY

Piecing Together Malicious Behavior in Encrypted Traffic

This post was authored by Jan Kohout, Veronica Valeros and Petr Somol. Increasing adoption of encryption in web communication significantly contributes to protection of users’ privacy. However, it also brings tough challenges for intrusion detection systems that need to analyze the traffic wit…