Benchmarking Free-Tier Large Language Models as Cognitive Aids

Greetings & Acknowledgements ℹ️ Heads Up: I write specifically keeping editing to a minimum. There are likely spelling, grammatical mistakes. I prefer to keep my thoughts as close to raw as possible, and sometimes that means going off on tangents. Thank you for reading. Hi folks, Before we begin, I want to take a moment to extend a special thanks to my SANS Research Advisor, Lenny Zeltser, as well as my student advisor Betty Deeb w/ SANS. Second, I want to extend another massive thank you to the 5 participants who assisted me in collecting the data and providing their insights for our human baseline scores. ...

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My Path into Infosec -- Part 1

Greetings & Special Thanks ℹ️ Heads Up: I write specifically keeping editing to a minimum. There are likely spelling, grammatical mistakes. I prefer to keep my thoughts as close to raw as possible, and sometimes that means going off on tangents. Thank you for reading, if you are not dissuaded. Hi, my name is Ricky, and at the time of this writing, I’m a senior incident responder for Google Cloud, I have built many of the cloud security response processes with my team that are utilized across GCP for responding to threats of various sizes and scale. ...

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