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Anomaly detection in command shell sessions is a critical aspect of computer security. Recent advances in deep learning and natural language processing, particularly transformer-based models, have shown great promise for addressing complex…

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Distributed intrustion detection systems detect attacks on computer systems by analyzing data aggregated from distributed sources. The distributed nature of the data sources allows patterns in the data to be seen that might not be…

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