Anaylsis and SATNAC Paper
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 11 May 2010
Woah, time has flown a lot faster than I expected. The focus of the last month or so has been towards
analysing some of the summarised data and then using this summarised data develop heurstics to describe
"Network Incidents". This analysis is detailed in a paper written for SATNAC 2010 and can be obtained
in the publication section. I am near gearing towards writing papers for ISSA and SACIST.
Paper submitted to SATNAC 2010
Research Process Outline
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 22 March 2010
I've used DOT to draw a directed graph of the process that I expect my thesis to take. Covering research area's involved, processes involved and ultimate goals of the research. This diagram may be obtained below :
Thesis Process
Rough Thesis Outline
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 20 March 2010
I've though about the direction of my thesis and have jotted down some idea's for chapters to form a thesis outline. It mainly focuses on the literature review. Please note this is very rough and may be obtained below :
Rough Thesis Outline
UML and ISSA Abstract
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 20 March 2010
I've spent some time applying the OOP approach to my query scripts, breaking the various components down into the apprioprate classes and methods. A UML Class Diagram for this is available below.
Telequery Class Diagram
Also my ISSA Abstract is complete and may be obtained below :
Telequery Class Diagram
More Scripting and ISSA Abstract Progress
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 18 March 2010
This week was spent adding additional functionality to my data gathering script, allowing for startime/endtime, timing, weight query. I still want to add functionality to run multiple queries in parallel and unique host identification.
Currently I being a good little coder and moving all my code in proper classes and generally tidying. I've also written my ISSA abstract, mostly (in rough). When its complete I'll upload it.
Script Writing and gathering stats
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 11 March 2010
I have written a script to query the network telescope database. At the moment I am just looking at port frequency for the given time frame and then drawing frequency histograms on a monthly period.
I think I just realized that looking through 33 million packets can take quite some time (not to mention 65535 ports). Some of the results can be find on the resources page.
Project Proposal
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 8 March 2010
My project proposal for my masters thesis is available from the link below. In a nutshell I am looking at AI and Mathematical techniques for analysis and detection of variations in traffic flow which may be indicative of potential attacks.
Download Project Proposal
Website Updated for Masters Project
Posted by Bradley Cowie on the 8 March 2010
My masters project now has its own site were the relevant details and resources will be stored. Access to the work I did is still obtainable through the Honours Project Portal.
