Identifying the origins of business’ data breaches utilizing covert timing channels

<p>Cybersecurity events and data breaches are on the rise and are very costly to businesses. Businesses rely on connectivity and information systems to conduct business, yet those same information systems can be breached and the organization's data exposed. Today, there is a heavy reliance of organizations upon network connections to connect the entire organization in order to conduct business efficiently and from multiple locations. Covert timing channels are a cybersecurity attack method in which malicious actors embed privileged information into normal network traffic without authorization. Malicious actors, by carefully manipulating timing patterns in covert timing channels, can create a hidden communication channel that is difficult to detect. In the following research, a technique is proposed to detect/classify the type of privileged information leaked over a covert timing channel, using communication packets and a machine learning algorithm to train a classification model to identify the origin of a data breach.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

College of Engineering and Technology

Year dc:date.available

2024

Author dc:creator

• Frisbie, Gayle L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Omar Darwish, Ph.D.
• Munther Abualkibash, Ph.D.
• Anas Alsobeh, Ph.D.

• covert timing channel
• machine learning
• binary translation
• data type origin detection
• supervised learning
• Computer Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1231

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2590