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Contribution Details

Type Bachelor's Thesis
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Distributed Analysis of Cyberattacks in a Collaborative Setting
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Marion Dübendorfer
Supervisors
  • Jan Von der Assen
  • Muriel Figueredo Franco
  • Burkhard Stiller
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Faculty Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics
Date 2022
Abstract Text Since the early 2000s, DDoS attacks pose a major threat to the availability of services connected to the internet, as they can have far-reaching impacts on businesses, organizations, and society as a whole. As DDoS attacks continue to grow in frequency, volume, and severity, DDoS attack analysis systems have emerged both from research and industry. This thesis examines current tools that provide DDoS attack analysis and protection services based on network traffic analysis, and discusses the lack of distributed, collaborative features present in these tools. The main goal of this thesis is to design and implement a prototype that fulfills these features. This is done by extending the architecture of SecGrid, a platform for the extraction, processing, and analysis of cyberattack traffic in a post-mortem fashion. The case studies conducted as part of the evaluation of the prototype suggest that the presented solution enables the distributed and collaborative analysis of cyberattacks, while preserving the scalability and usability of the SecGrid system. The performance evaluation conducted as part of this thesis suggests that in certain use cases, scalability can even be increased.
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