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Mobile Agent Attack Resistant Distributed Hierarchical Intrusion Detection Systems

September 8, 1999

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell, Mark McLarnon

Distributed intrusion detection systems are especially vulnerable to attacks since, typically, each component resides at a static location and components are connected together into a hierarchical structure. An attacker can disable such a system by taking

Computer Attacks: What They Are and How to Defend Against Them

May 26, 1999

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell

Although a host of technologies exists to detect and prevent attacks against computers, a human must coordinate responding to a successful network penetration. At the same time, the majority of systems administrators are not prepared to handle a

Understanding the Global Attack Toolkit Using a Database of Dependent Classifiers

November 5, 1998

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell

High profile Internet web sites publish a large collection of attack scripts that we call the Global Attack Toolkit (GAT). It is a dangerous tool available to the average web surfer and yet we known little about this set of attacks besides the fact that it

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