Today I realized there really is a lot more involved in Network Security then I had originally imagined. My paper covered machine-learning for anomaly detection, while we also discussed spam filtering, botnets (and how to attack them), improving DNS in order to track malicious activity, and even outsourcing network management in an attempt to improve network security (which reminds me too much of the movie "The Net" to sound like a safe and viable solution).
Maybe I hadn't realized that there was such a wide variety because I haven't researched much in this area, or maybe because I haven't been exposed to all the different ways that "bad guys" try and attack a network, but this topic has been a really eye-opening experience. I mean Hollywood glamorizes hacking all the time, but these papers discuss serious threats that could have serious ramifications. Seeing a real-life perspective of cyber-terrorism is interesting and it starts to make sense why it has become more of a cat and mouse game.
Some of the papers had really intuitive ideas to deal with attackers, and even tutorial papers like the ones I read play an important part. As my professor stated in class, tutorial papers do a great job at focusing the field in the right direction, so that students working on their Master's can understand how to proceed if they are new to the area and can help the community as a whole fight the "bad guys."
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