College
College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Date of Last Revision
2024-06-03 12:59:52
Major
Computer Information Systems
Honors Course
CISS 491-801
Number of Credits
3
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Date of Expected Graduation
Fall 2024
Abstract
Network security and its mitigation of cyber espionage is paramount to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data within the intelligence field. With the advancing efficacy of social engineering to execute cyber espionage attacks, further measures and fail-safe mechanisms have become necessary. If a malicious actor successfully penetrates the network, suspending confidential data transmissions over the compromised network becomes crucial. However, connected users need a platform to receive security notifications and, therefore, need to know that their continued network use compromises more data. This project eliminates this by achieving two primary objectives: designing a multi- layered, hardened, and segmented network environment and providing a fail-safe notification alert mechanism that informs all users that their network is compromised. This network security strategy designs and hardens a network and implements intrusion detection, prevention, and response through a security information and event management system (SIEM). This project integrates the SIEM alerts into Microsoft Teams to give centralized, accessible notifications to all network users. By executing various cyber attacks, this project finds the notification alert mechanism successful in providing network users with automatic, real-time notifications about the attack that instruct users to suspend network transmissions.
Research Sponsor
Nadhem Ebrahim
First Reader
Stanley Smith
Second Reader
Richard Mehok
Honors Faculty Advisor
Janet Kropff
Proprietary and/or Confidential Information
No
Recommended Citation
Headland, Claire, "Mitigating Cyber Espionage: A Network Security Strategy Using Notifications" (2024). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 1790.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/1790