Research Interests
My current research interests are focused on assisting administrators in
conducting threat assessments on their networks with respects to services
provided or mission critical resources. I am working with attack graphs to
develop a multi-faceted tool that can be used for a variety of threat
assessment and management purposes such as response, forensics, patch
management and network design. The attack graph work involves expert
systems and a framework for representing potential exploits and network
state to compose the attack graphs and evolutionary computation to analyze
the attack graph.
I am also interested in taking ideas from biology and applying them to computer security. One such field is artificial immune systems (AIS), which takes some concepts of biological immune systems and applies them to anomaly detection. My current work uses a genetic algorithm to evolve the detectors as part of the AIS. I am also interested in exploring other biological concepts such as specialized detectors and multi-level immune systems which incorporate both adaptive and nonadaptive methods.
Projects
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Publications
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