Pretty much decided on TensorFlow as an API now (most likely using python).

Continued doing research on neural networks. Useful resource:

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

Found many literature using neural networks for blue team activities such as NIDS’s however almost no red team examples.

this is to the exception of 1 which is to use neural networks (The paper used Torch not tensorflow) in order to predict passwords from a small training set. That paper can be found here:

• https://0day.work/using-neural-networks-for-password-cracking/ unfortunately i dont think this is a viable direction to take my project and will continue to search for a red teaming solution.

found out that Udacity do a course on deep learning (created by google and using tensorflow) which is free

• https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning–ud730 This is probably a good place to start.