Date Approved
2018
Degree Type
Open Access Senior Honors Thesis
Department or School
Technology and Professional Services Management
First Advisor
Dr. James Banfield
Second Advisor
Dr. Suleiman Ashur
Abstract
Over the last three semesters, I worked toward my final goal to develop a custom network security appliance. I first began by completing a comparison analysis of network intrusion detection systems which are devices that read traffic from the network and determine if network packets should go through or be dropped. Second, I conducted a feasibility study of a custom framework to profile attackers in a network; this yielded positive results. Finally, I worked on creating a custom network security appliance; it uses the profiles I created in my framework to more efficiently block malicious attackers in comparison to other security appliances. Below is a more detailed account of how these steps were taken to result in my final security appliance.
Recommended Citation
Rickerd, Jacob, "Construction of a custom network security appliance" (2018). Senior Honors Theses and Projects. 578.
https://commons.emich.edu/honors/578