Argos: An emulator for fingerprinting zero-day attacks for advertised honeypots with automatic signature generation

Proceedings of the 2006 EuroSys Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 15-27

  Portokalidis, Georgios ^a   Slowinska, Asia ^a   Bos, Herbert ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Performance; Security

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INTRUSION DETECTION; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

EXPERIMENTATION; ORCHESTRATED ATTACKS; PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 34748920692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1217935.1217938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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