Network Attack Visualization

Presented at DEF CON 12 (2004), July 31, 2004, 7 p.m. (50 minutes)

On even a moderately sized network, activity can easily reach the order of millions, perhaps billions, of packets. Hidden in this sea of data is malicious activity. Current network analysis and monitoring tools primarily use text and simple charting to present information. These methods, while effective in some circumstances, can overwhelm the analyst with too much, or the wrong type of, information. This situation is worsened by today's algorithmic intrusion detection systems, which, although generally effective, can overwhelm the analyst with unacceptably high false positive and false negative rates.


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  • Greg Conti - Assistant Professor of Computer Science, US Military Academy
    Greg Conti is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the United States Military Academy. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy. His areas of expertise include network security, interface design and information warfare. Greg has worked at a variety of military intelligence assignments specializing in Signals Intelligence. Currently he is on a Department of Defense Fellowship and is working on his PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He is conducting research into Denial of Information Attacks.

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