“Cyber analytics is a branch of analytics that systematically provides the analysis of the data pertaining to the domain of computers and network. It basically, tells the story behind cyber data. Cyber analytics is used to support computer security, computer or network administration, auditing, and several other application areas.”
Implementation
Cyber Security Monitoring
To perform adaptive cyber-security analytics using a computer implemented method that includes receiving a report on a network activity, It works as follows, a scoring method is used wherein a score responsive to the network activity is calculated. The score indicates a likelihood of security breach. This score is validated and the scoring model is automatically updated, responsive to the results of the validation. If the score falls within a threshold value of a security violation rule, the network activity is reported as suspicious. This basically relates generally to cyber-security monitoring, and more particularly to monitoring incoming security events to determine if any activity is violating security rules.
Current approaches for cyber-security monitoring can be divided into two broad categories:
• Targeted event-based detection:
1. It involves the creation and maintenance of a set of event which are used to identify activities which are suspicious, which might violate security rules. Example: pattern-based antivirus engines and Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS)
2. It produces
tools will help to detect intrusions and other suspicious activities on the network. The third challenge is to improve the
Do you have systems to recognize and react to suspect or know security episodes; alleviate to the degree practicable, hurtful impacts of known security occurrences; and record occurrences and their results? (R)
The goal of intrusion detection is to monitor network assets, detect anomalous behavior, and identify misuse within a network (Ashoor, Gore, 2011). An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a device or software application that monitors network system activities for malicious activity or policy violations and produces reports to a management station (Kashyap, Agrawal, Pandey, Keshri, 2013), additionally there are three types of IDS:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines Information Security Continuous Monitoring as “maintaining ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats to support organizational risk management decisions” (Dempsey, et al., 2011). NIST advocates for continuous monitoring of information security systems, by the process of defining the program, establishing it, implementing the program, analyzing and reporting findings, responding to the findings, and reviewing and updating the program. Additionally, they believe that in order to be more cost effective, and to improve efficiency and reliability of the monitoring program, automation would be the way to go. By making use of the latest trends in technology such as machine learning and data mining, algorithms can be developed to detect patterns, which would ordinarily be missed by the human eye. This is especially true of voluminous data where it is time consuming and just plain difficult for personnel to sift through. Such implementations leaves the security professionals with time to tackle the issues which would require human involvement (Dempsey, et al., 2011). One example of an automated monitoring system is a firewall. The job of a firewall is to monitor and regulate the network traffic coming into and out of a system, which could be as small as a single home computer connected to the internet, to several thousands of devices in an organization the size of Amazon or
These proposals and systems suggestions can minimize the vulnerabilities associated with any compromises or intrusions within the network. Deploying an intrusion detection system is an essential security strategy for monitoring a network information system for abnormal or authorized activity. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is set of tools which monitor a network topology by providing a system administrator with the overall picture of how the system is being utilized. Executing an IDS will make a difference in creating a defense in depth architecture to be more compelling in recognizing any form of malicious activities. The capacity of the IDS is to monitor and survey the network traffic without affecting network activity. IDS tools gather information and analyzes it against a pre-characterized manage set, and against a set of known assault 'marks'. The IDS can scan port numbers and to determine if any breaches or attacks are occurring (Kuipers,
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In an e-commerce world, organizations are susceptible to hackers and intruders. Thus creating the information technology protection systems which is used to reduce the possibility of intrusions from occurring. Intrusions occur by uninvited outsiders (sometimes intruders can be internal users like employees) who try to access an organization’s information system using the internet with the intent to gain competitive advantage of some sort. Organizations depend on security technology to avoid loss from security breach, as well as to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. However, firewalls are also vulnerable to errors, and implementing a security technology comes with challenges and critical decisions that can possibly cause a financial burden on the organization if done without seriousness and commitment. “Information security is about managing risk, and managing risk is about discovering and measuring threats to information assets; and taking actions to respond to those threats” (Al-Awadi, & Renaud, 2007, p.3). This paper will discuss a few aspects that are involved with firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
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