3 papers
cs.CR2016
A Characterization of Cybersecurity Posture from Network Telescope Data
Zhenxin Zhan, Maochao Xu, Shouhuai Xu
Data-driven understanding of cybersecurity posture is an important problem that has not been adequately explored. In this paper, we analyze some real data collected by CAIDA's netw…
cs.CR2016
Characterizing Honeypot-Captured Cyber Attacks: Statistical Framework and Case Study
Zhenxin Zhan, Maochao Xu, Shouhuai Xu
Rigorously characterizing the statistical properties of cyber attacks is an important problem. In this paper, we propose the {\em first} statistical framework for rigorously analyz…
cs.CR2016
Predicting Cyber Attack Rates with Extreme Values
Zhenxin Zhan, Maochao Xu, Shouhuai Xu
It is important to understand to what extent, and in what perspectives, cyber attacks can be predicted. Despite its evident importance, this problem was not investigated until very…