The proliferation of computer viruses, Trojans, and other malicious code in recent years has presented a serious challenge to higher education computer services support programs. Outside of higher education, most IT departments mandate anti-virus policies ...

Honeynets, which are designed to be digital decoys, have proven to be valuable research and teaching tool in the area of computer security and information assurance. In this paper, we discuss the development and implementation of a honeynet laboratory ...

Internet-based control is a way of using the internet as a platform for remote monitoring and control operation. The obvious benefit is to enable remote monitoring and maintenance of process plants and to initiate global collaboration and data sharing ...

The academic community has long acknowledged the existence of malicious botnets, however to date, very little is known about the behavior of these distributed computing platforms. To the best of our knowledge, botnet behavior has never been methodically ...

Abstract¿In this paper, we develop a formal logical foundation for secure deductive databases. This logical foundation is based on an extended logic involving several modal operators. We develop two models of interaction between the user and the database ...

The topic of this proposed special session is security education with an emphasis on increasing the number of schools and programs that teach it. We will review the current status of security education as it is taught within the CS discipline including ...

This paper describes data mining and data warehousing techniques that can improve the performance and usability of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Current IDS do not provide support for historical data analysis and data summarization. This paper presents ...

Anomalous communication patterns are one of the leading indicators of computer system intrusions according to the system administrators we have interviewed. But a major problem is being able to correlate across the host/network boundary to see how network ...

In this paper, we present an efficient fast anomaly intrusion detection model incorporating a large amount of data from various data sources. A novel method based on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is presented to profile program and user behaviors ...

Survivable systems must identify and isolate any damage as quickly as possible to avoid infection epidemic and outbreak in case of a malicious attack. Any delay during the fault detection and isolation process may lead to system unavailability and is ...

Based on the trace representation of Boolean functions, we devise an evolutionary algorithm to design bent functions. Using this algorithm, we then construct many bent functions and perform some analyses. First, we observe that each of the four affinely ...

This paper describes a lab-based course in computer security targeted at non-majors and introductory-level students at a liberal arts college. The course material exposes students to actual malware and hacking attacks through experiments in an isolated ...

Educational institutions that wish to implement a specialized teaching laboratory often have a variety of obstacles to overcome. Some of these obstacles are related to adapting existing classroom infrastructure, building the laboratory, and meeting the ...

Security risk assessment is a major component in many security certification exams, but it is relatively neglected in universities' computing curricula. As the impact of network security threat becomes greater, the need to reduce network vulnerabilities ...

Many researchers are investigating the use of adaptive program transformation as a way to efficiently improve program performance. Performance improving transformations are performed at runtime to adapt to the possibly changing runtime characteristics ...