Step 7: Feature Impact

Which features help the model?

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💡 ReflectThink deeper

Which features help the model?

Toggle features on and off. The model retrains in real time — watch which features make the biggest difference.

Raw columns
Engineered features
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F1 Score
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Comparison

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Think Deeper

Remove all engineered features and train with just raw columns. Then add bytes_per_second. What happens?

Raw columns alone give decent accuracy (they're already numeric), but adding bytes_per_second often boosts recall significantly. It captures transfer speed — a derived signal that neither bytes_sent nor duration alone express.
Cybersecurity tie-in: In SOC ML pipelines, adding bytes_per_second and port_risk_score often matters more than tuning the model algorithm. Feature engineering is where domain expertise meets machine learning — and where security engineers have the advantage.

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