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Evaluating The Gasday Security Policy Through Penetration Testing And Application Of The Nist Cybersecurity Framework, Andrew Nicholas Kirkham
Evaluating The Gasday Security Policy Through Penetration Testing And Application Of The Nist Cybersecurity Framework, Andrew Nicholas Kirkham
Master's Theses (2009 -)
This thesis explores cybersecurity from the perspective of the Marquette University GasDay lab. We analyze three different areas of cybersecurity in three independent chapters. Our goal is to improve the cybersecurity capabilities of GasDay, Marquette University, and the natural gas industry. We present network penetration testing as a process of attempting to gain access to resources of GasDay without prior knowledge of any valid credentials. We discuss our method of identifying potential targets using industry standard reconnaissance methods. We outline the process of attempting to gain access to these targets using automated tools and manual exploit creation. We propose several …
Leveraging Client Processing For Location Privacy In Mobile Local Search, Wisam Mohamed Eltarjaman
Leveraging Client Processing For Location Privacy In Mobile Local Search, Wisam Mohamed Eltarjaman
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Usage of mobile services is growing rapidly. Most Internet-based services targeted for PC based browsers now have mobile counterparts. These mobile counterparts often are enhanced when they use user's location as one of the inputs. Even some PC-based services such as point of interest Search, Mapping, Airline tickets, and software download mirrors now use user's location in order to enhance their services. Location-based services are exactly these, that take the user's location as an input and enhance the experience based on that. With increased use of these services comes the increased risk to location privacy. The location is considered an …