Talk by Prof. Anthony D. Joseph (UC Berkeley): "A Novel Approach to E-mail Worm/Virus Containment"
Talk by Prof. Anthony D. Joseph (UC Berkeley): "A Novel Approach to E-mail Worm/Virus Containment"
| What | Meeting |
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| When |
2006-10-27 15:30
2006-10-27 16:30
2006-10-27 from 15:30 to 16:30 |
| Where | Informatikzentrum, Room 5052 |
| Contact Name | Prof. Dr. Klaus Wehrle |
| Contact Email | Klaus.Wehrle@rwth-aachen.de |
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Abstract:
In this talk, I will present our research into adaptive techniques for identifying and containing the spread of novel e-mail-borne worms and viruses. Traditional techniques have suffered from either a window of vulnerability in detecting novel e-mail worms/viruses or they have high false positive rates, reducing their usefulness.
Our approach combines a Statistical Learning Technique-based approach using greedy e-mail feature selection with semi-supervised learning to yield a system that can detect previously unseen types of e-mail worms and viruses while offering both low false positive and low false negative rates. I will show preliminary results using both a locally collected dataset and a publicly available dataset. Finally, I will present the DETER testbed, a unique national-scale testbed that we have designed and built for open cybersecurity research.


