Using Network Flow Data to Profile Your Network and Reduce Vulnerabilities. Part 1: What a Network Profile Can Tell You About Your Network

Abstract

Today Austin, Sid, and I will be talking about how organizations can use network flow data -- and we'll tell you what that is -- to identify the top public facing assets and services with most network traffic on your network. And the reason this is important is because a potential attacker can observe and take advantage of this information. This conversation is based on an August 2012 report that Austin and Sid authored, which is titled Network Profiling Using Flow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
AD1147392

Entities

People

  • Austin Whisnant
  • Julia H. Allen
  • Sid Faber

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anomaly Detection
  • Change Detection
  • Commerce
  • Computer Network Security
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Intellectual Property
  • Internet
  • Mobile Devices
  • Monitoring
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • New Mexico
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Universities

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Software Engineering.