Security by simple network traffic monitoring

  • Authors:
  • Hiroshi Tsunoda;Glenn Mansfield Keeni

  • Affiliations:
  • Tohoku Institute of Technology, Yagiyama Kasumi-cho, Taihaku-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan;Cyber Solutions Inc., Minami Yoshinari, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Security of Information and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this work we show how data vital to information and network security management can be obtained, relatively easily by basic traffic monitoring and analysis. We introduce a new traffic analysis technique, category transform, to extract more useful information from available data and show the means and significance of looking at traffic characteristics at greater detail.