Naval Postgraduate School
Theses and Dissertations
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Strategies used in capture-the-flag events contributing to team performance
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-03)
Capture-the-flag (CTF) exercises are useful pedagogical tools and have been employed, both formally and informally, by academic institutions. Much like their physical counterparts, cyber CTF exercises hold pedagogical value ...
An improved tarpit for network deception
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-03)
Networks are constantly bombarded with malicious or suspicious network traffic by attackers attempting to execute their attack operations. One of the most prevalent types of traffic observed on the network is scanning ...
Detection of active topology probing deception
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-09)
For all purposes and intents, being able to infer the topology of a network is crucial to both operators and adversaries alike. Tracer-oute is a common active probing technique but it may be subverted by deceptive responses. ...
Discovery of IPv6 router interface addresses via heuristic methods
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-09)
With the assignment of the last available blocks of public IPv4 addresses from Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, there is continued pressure for widespread IPv6 adoption. Because the IPv6 address space is orders of ...
Inferring the presence of reverse proxies through timing analysis
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-06)
This thesis presents a method for inferring the presence of a reverse proxy server using packet timing analysis from the vantage point of a client system. This method can determine whether Internet users are receiving web ...
Evaluating the limits of network topology inference via virtualized network emulation
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-06)
The Internet measurement community is beset by a lack of ground truth, or knowledge of the real, underlying network in topology inference experiments. While better tools and methodologies can be developed, quantifying the ...
Methods for intelligent mapping of the IPv6 address space
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-03)
Due to the rapid growth of the Internet, the available pool of unique addresses in version four of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) is nearly depleted. As a result, the next generation protocol, IPv6, is now widely implemented ...
IP infrastructure geolocation
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-03)
Physical network maps are important to critical infrastructure defense and planning. Current state-of-the-art network infrastructure geolocation relies on Domain Name System (DNS) inferences. However, not only is using ...
Performance testing of GPU-based approximate matching algorithm on network traffic
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-03)
Insider threat is one of the risks both government and private organizations have to deal with in protecting their important information. Data exfiltration and data leakage resulting from insiders’ activities can be very ...
Toward a robust method of presenting a rich, interconnected deceptive network topology
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-03)
Every day, adversaries bombard Department of Defense computer networks with scanning traffic in order to gather information about the target network. This reconnaissance is typically a precursor to attacks designed to ...
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