Abstract #300852

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300852
Activity Number: 359
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #300852
Title: Profiling Users by Their Network Activity
Author(s): David J. Marchette*+
Companies: Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
Address: 12205 Ward Rd., King George, VA, 22485-5417,
Keywords: user profiling ; computer security ; social networks ; graph theory
Abstract:

This work describes methods for characterizing the network activity of users. This activity is defined in terms of the servers and services they access, and is temporal in nature. Graph theoretic ideas borrowed from the social networks literature are used, and the techniques are evaluated on a data set consisting of 30 users monitored over 5 months.

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