Research on Infrastructure Systems and Services Brent Hoon Kang http:isr'uncc'edu Infrastructure Sys

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Research on Infrastructure Systems and
ServicesBrent Hoon Kanghttp//isr.uncc.eduInf
rastructure System and Services Research Lab
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Infrastructure Systems Research
Configuration Management Framework with Windows
Registry Collection (RegColl)
Bot-free Infrastructure
Privilege Messaging
Peer Encylopedia
IT Systems Design for Cyber Defense
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BotNets and Peer to Peer

• More than 1 million bots around world.
• One of the most serious security threats
• DoD computers have been zombied.
• Traditionally based on IRC server
• Disguising bot activities under normal behavior
• Moving into Peer to Peer
• Hide under HTTP traffic instead of IRC traffic

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Diversity in Operating Systems

• Homogeneous OS design could be considered as root
  of all cyber threats.
• Malware utilized OS implementation bug
• One vulnerable bug in Microsoft OS will put
  billions of machines at risk.
• Diverse implementation would make IT
  infrastructure much more resilient to any OS
  specific bug.

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Interested ?

• bbkang_at_uncc.edu

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Fact of Life in Email
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Another Fact of Life in Email
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Privileges in Outlook Inbox
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P-Server Login
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P-Server Privilege List
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Infrastructure Systems Research
(http//isr.uncc.edu)
Configuration Management Framework with Windows
Registry Collection (RegColl)
Bot-free Infrastructure
Privilege Messaging
Peer Encylopedia
IT Systems Design for Cyber Defense
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Typical Infrastructure Systems