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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dynamics of abusive IPv6 networks
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-09)
The exhaustion of available public IPv4 addresses has had a significant impact in an expanding, networked world and has led to increased adoption of IPv6. As IPv6 becomes more commonplace, it permits abusive and malicious ...
IPv6 network infrastructure and stability inference
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-09)
IPv6 deployment is increasing as IPv4 address allocations near exhaustion. Many large organizations, including the Department of Defense (DOD), have mandated the transition to IPv6. With the transition to IPv6, new techniques ...
Design and evaluation for the end-to-end detection of TCP/IP header manipulation
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-06)
Understanding, measuring, and debugging IP networks, particularly across administrative domains, is challenging. One aspect of the challenge are transparent middleboxes, which are now common in today’s Internet. In-path ...
Comparing internet probing methodologies through an analysis of large dynamic graphs
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-06)
The Internet is an evolving, robust system with built in redundancy to ensure the flow of information regardless of any act of nature or man-made event. This makes mapping the Internet a daunting task, but important because ...
Temporal comparisons of Internet topology
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-06)
Network science and its many applications provide insight into several genres, including biological, neural, logistical and technical problems. The study of complex networks extends to the Internet as well, merging graph ...
Detecting potentially compromised credentials in a large-scale production single-signon system
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-06)
We posit that potentially compromised credentials are detectable by analyzing the system artifacts of a large-scale production, single-signon system. With permission from the Defense Manpower Data Center, we analyze a ...
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