With the Internet's rapid growth has come a proportional increase in exposure to attacks, misuse and abuse. Modern viruses and worms are causing damage much more quickly than those created in the past. The fast replication and epidemic nature of the spreads limits the time secur…
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Most research discussing malware detection completely dismisses signatures as being a thing of the past, accusing signatures of suffering from a weak ability to detect zero-day malware. This indeed could be the case if we are still referring to the classic definition of signatur…
Although desktops and laptops have historically composed the bulk of botnet nodes, Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become more recent targets. Lightbulbs, outdoor cameras, watches, and many other small items are connected to WiFi and each other; and few have well-developed…
Malicious code protection is often seen as synonymous with antivirus. Antivirus is a form of a negative security control. Much of the current and historical research into malicious code prevention is focused on improving antivirus. This experimental quantitative research shows t…
The purpose of this research project was to examine network firewalls to provide recommendations for how to better mitigate threat exposer related to configuration deficiencies. The study focused on the different firewall generations, how each generation has grown, and the stren…