Application Intrusion Detection: Security for Cloud Deployments

As servers move to the cloud, sources for security analysis become more limited. Security teams must make the most of the resources available to them. Our project attempts to fulfill this need by providing a template-based application to analyze and detect security events in logs that are available in cloud environments. We focus on authentication logs, but analysis modules can be added to flag anomalies in any log. The deliverables include log analysis, including successive repeated failures, location-based anomalies, and excessive failed login attempts across multiple accounts. To present our findings we output the results to a web interface for further analysis by a security team. Our project was limited by time, knowledge, available hardware and log sources. Under these constraints we developed a server-based solution that analyzes authentication logs and presents the data in an easily understood format. An authentication data log for a large organization can contain millions of events. To narrow down the large volume of information into a manageable number of interesting events, we analyzed the data-based on a set of our proposed criteria. The information that results from the analysis is easily read and used for further investigation into possible malicious behavior. The market impact of a comprehensive security engine capable of analyzing large amounts of seemingly unconnected data and reducing them into only the interesting entries would be significant. It would save security teams time, improve the incident detection efficiency, and help focus efforts and funds where they are needed most.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/capstone/1095/thumbnail.jp

Manned-Unmanned Self-Organizing Bursty Networks with Biological Nodes

CRUSER TechCon 2018 Research at NPS. Wednesday 1: SensingAn elusive (hard to detect and hard to compromise) fast morphing network composed of cooperative manned-unmanned short living nodes and links, could be a significant force multiplier in providing an asymmetric advantage for emerging urban and coastal maritime combat. During FY16-FY17, sponsored by CRUSER, our research team made initial successful steps in proof of concept experimental studies of short-living projectile-based nodes for multi-domain mesh networking as well as short-living directional links to enable robust elusive littoral mesh networking. Through incremental experimentation, we've explored promising capabilities of integrating short-living nodes with miniature short-living link models to support very temporary connections between nodes of a multi-domain mesh network, enabled by maneuvering UAV formations, small sets of USVs and UGVs, fast patrol boats, and urban area ground units. Integration of biological aerial and ground nodes, such as falcons in the air and canines on the ground, provides a unique opportunity provides a unique opportunity to expand bursty manned-unmanned mesh networks research into the new level of formation autonomous behavior. In this new line of research we explore feasibility and major constraints for falcons and canines to carry on advanced miniature solutions for bursty links and nodes. We explore the falcons capability to serve as fast moving aerial relays for rapidly stretching the UAV-UGV or/and UAV-USV mesh network into the otherwise denied area, negotiate position and distance with closest UAV-UGV-USV-dismounted operator neighbors, and exercise unstructured autonomous behavior to maintain sensing or attack patterns. Similarly, we explore the capability of canines to maintain "canine nose-UAV/Falcon eye" cooperation in stretching the network to mission area, to enable temporary sensor data bursts collection and transfer, and , certainly their ability enhance UAV-UGV-USV mesh network autonomous behavior

The Parthenon, February 27, 2018

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2016 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published two days a week. Physical issues are printed on Tuesdays and Fridays. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content

December 2011; VPA Momentum

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Illinois State University and Illinois Wesleyan University University Choirs

Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall Sunday April 13, 2003 7:00p.m

Ethnocentrism And Off Reservation Indian Boarding Schools

Ethnocentrism is a force to be reckoned with. The idea that one’s culture is morally and intellectually superior to another is a concept that has followed expanding civilizations for ages. The saga of the United States is no different. A society in a stage of expansion may think from a place of grandeur, and apply their cultural values to conquered people. This research will focus on three categories that will illustrate a holistic mindset of ethnocentrism from the point of view of the expanding United States to the original inhabitants of the continent. First, an exploration of federal government Indian policy. Second, an investigation into the personal memoirs of Richard H. Pratt, the originator of the first off-reservation boarding school. Finally, and possibly most effective, the voices of the students, and their decedents, of off-reservation boarding schools will be interpreted. The research is applied to high school social studies classrooms through analysis of primary sources via collaborative learning

Measuring Discrimination in South Korea: Underestimating the Prevalence of Discriminatory Experiences among Female and Less Educated Workers?

Objectives: To investigate the possibility that Koreans show different patterns in reporting discriminatory experiences based on their gender and education level, we analyzed the participants who answered “Not Applicable” for the questions of discriminatory experiences that they were eligible to answer. Methods Discriminatory experiences in eight social situations were assessed using the 7th wave of Korean Labor and Income Panel Study. After restricting the study population to waged workers, a logistic regression model was constructed to predict the probability that an individual has experienced discrimination based on the observed covariates for each of eight situations, using the data of participants who answered either Yes or No. With the model fit, the predicted logit score of discrimination (PLSD) was obtained for participants who answered Not Applicable (NA), as well as for those who answered Yes or No. The mean PLSD of the NA group was compared with those of the Yes group and the No group after stratification by gender and education level using an ANOVA model. Results: On the questions of discrimination in getting hired and receiving income, the PLSD of the NA group was significantly higher than that of the No group and was not different from that of Yes group for female and junior high or less educated workers, suggesting that their NA responses were more likely to mean that they have experienced discrimination. For male and college or more educated workers, the NA group had a PLSD similar to that for the No group and had a significantly higher PLSD than the Yes group, implying that their NA responses would mean they that they have not experienced discrimination. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the responses of NA on the discrimination questionnaire may need different interpretation based on the respondents' gender and education level in South Korea