Internet early warning systems are becoming an essential part to protect networks and to prevent attacks.
These are our projects in this area of research:
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Global communication and E-Commerce are just examples to demonstrate the importance of electronic communication solutions. Companies and Institutions are becoming more and more dependent on the availability of this global network.
Breakdowns and interferences lead to drastic financial losses as well as image deficits for the parties involved and on the long run may result in ruin. As deployed systems are becoming more complex malfunctions, security vulnerabilities and faulty configurations are no longer a surprise. The coding of secure applications has gained in importance but malicious attacks, virus and worm activity, acts of sabotage and even industrial espionage are possible and on the agenda.
For this reasons the internet in near future has to be seen as a critical infrastructure. Special systems are needed to make established conclusions about the state of this critical infrastructure. Besides the actual state, future prospects are of interest.
Early warning systems shall provide these functions. They shall be able to recognize irregularities and anomalies on basis of the merest hint and therefore enable in time warnings. This requires to collect data about the actual state of the internet in either way, analyze and categorize it and to generate established alerts and warnings.
The Internet-Analyze-System (IAS) of our institute as part of an Early Warning System offers a new possibility to analyze and evaluate the actual state of the internet. But there are a series of alternative approaches for Early Warning Systems in the internet. Within those alternatives, strategies and technologies are used that may complement and complete the IAS functions. Including the safeguarding of the availability of services offered in the internet through the Internet Availability System (IVS). Established conclusions need a research of the internet structure. The quality of deployed systems for example, depends on the geographical and logical distribution of data break points.
Contact
Institute for Internet-Security
Faculty: Computer Sciences
Dominique Petersen
Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen
Neidenburger Str. 43
45887 Gelsenkirchen
E-Mail: dominique.petersen
internet-sicherheit.de
Phone: 0209 9596 766
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