This week consisted of work on my project proposal,
some investigation into adobe AIR (but to be continued next week).
And lots of random reading.
I continued with my project proposal this week, its almost done!
I did allot of reading about honeypots and played with packets using SharpPcap.
Lastly I started writing a paper on The management and attack analysis of honeypots
Which will include section on a suggested approach at aggregating data between
geographically dispersed honeypots.
Week 3 was spent doing further work on my project proposal, a bit
lame since I'm already heading strong into my project work.
I also did allot of reading on security metrics, data visualization and honeypots.
I did some programming with Adobe AIR and wrote a paper on virtual honeypots.
This week I spent hours fighting with freeBSD, Ubuntu and windows to try and get
Apache webserver to work, as wamp had trouble getting postres to run with php.
I learnt how to use the php gd library to draw graphs, got database connectivity
to the network telescope data via php. I also read more on data visualization and snort.
Progress Report for week 6 can be found
here
- Completed the abstract to my thesis
- worked more on my minidash project (prototyping)
- listed some metrics for use in the dashboard.
Progress Report for week 7 can be found
here
- Created a copy of the ruTelescope database on my laptop so that
I can test queries without breaking things to much on starburst.
- I wrote some python scripts to populate the database with random packet data.
- Wrote a python script to query a postgress db and output a csv file
- Wrote a php file to enterpret the resulting csv file and generate a graph
from it using phplot library
During the build up to the june exams I diden't get to do any proper project work, so this
entry is here to show what I have achieved since then. Everything is in the pdf and there are some
design specs from my Dashboard framework.
Progress for the June/July vac can be found
here
3rd Term
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- Worked on gluing bits and pieces of the dashboard together after the hiliday coding run
- Started writing dashboard documentation
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- Updated project website
- Fixed allot of problems that popped up in the dashboard.
- Implemented various gauges
- Outlined project thesis
- Worked on project presentation
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- Gave my project presentation.
- Played with flash and spinning globes.
- Documented metrics for 9 graphs(3 protocol, 3 traffic rate, 3 topN)
- Layout of project poster.
- A little bit of dashboard development writing.
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- I wrote an introduction and some of my design section for my thesis.
- I learned some new and refreshed some olf database skills.
- Did a bit of javascript refactoring in my dashboard
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- Discovered a fault with my code that caused an older version of apache (that was on my home pc)
to crash. (recursive include that used all the sites allocated memory and then made it fall over)
- Finished up all remaining course work
Planning on finish all development in the next 10 days, will have screenshots of my completed dashboard
up on the site by end of next week.
sept12.pdf
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- Finished various development work
- Started creating user tests
Laid out exactly what still needed to be done.
sept12.pdf
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- Finished largest chunk of remaining development work
- Finished user testing documents
Laid out exactly what still needed to be done.
sept27.pdf
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- Achieved allot of writing
- Polished some of the developement
Refactored Lit Review.
oct11.pdf
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- More writing
- Ember design chapter done
- Fixed bibliography
- More writing scattered across thesis
oct11.pdf
Progress Report for this week can be found
here
- More writing!!!!
- Network telescope design chapter done
- User testing and extensions chapter almost done
- Updates bits of the website
There was no final progress report, all that needs to be reported
is that I wrote/edited and proof red like never before.
Found here are copies of my project journal entries. 
