This module explores intrusion detection using the UCI KDD Cup 1999 Data Set with a support vector machine. UCI KDD Cup 1999 Data Set is the data set used for The Third International Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Tools Competition, which was held in conjunction with KDD-99 The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. The competition task was to help build a model capable of distinguishing between bad connections (called intrusions or attacks) and good normal connections. There are 4 million instances in the data set.