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Cyber Profiling For Insider Threat Detection, Akaninyene Walter Udoeyop Aug 2010

Cyber Profiling For Insider Threat Detection, Akaninyene Walter Udoeyop

Masters Theses

Cyber attacks against companies and organizations can result in high impact losses that include damaged credibility, exposed vulnerability, and financial losses. Until the 21st century, insiders were often overlooked as suspects for these attacks. The 2010 CERT Cyber Security Watch Survey attributes 26 percent of cyber crimes to insiders. Numerous real insider attack scenarios suggest that during, or directly before the attack, the insider begins to behave abnormally. We introduce a method to detect abnormal behavior by profiling users. We utilize the k-means and kernel density estimation algorithms to learn a user’s normal behavior and establish normal user profiles based …


Performance Evaluation Of Memory And Computationally Bound Chemistry Applications On Streaming Gpgpus And Multi-Core X86 Cpus, Frederick E. Weber Iii May 2010

Performance Evaluation Of Memory And Computationally Bound Chemistry Applications On Streaming Gpgpus And Multi-Core X86 Cpus, Frederick E. Weber Iii

Masters Theses

In recent years, multi-core processors have come to dominate the field in desktop and high performance computing. Graphics processors traditionally used in CAD, video games, and other 3-d applications, have become more programmable and are now suitable for general purpose computing. This thesis explores multi-core processors and GPU performance and limitations in two computational chemistry applications: a memory bound component of ab-initio modeling and a computationally bound Monte Carlo simulation. For the applications presented in this thesis, exploiting multiple processors is done using a variety of tools and languages including OpenMP and MKL. Brook+ and the Compute Abstraction Layer streaming …