Malware type recognition and cyber situational awareness

Proceedings - SocialCom 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 938-943

  Dube, Thomas ^a   Raines, Richard ^a   Peterson, Gilbert ^a   Bauer, Kenneth ^a   Grimaila, Michael ^a   Rogers, Steven ^b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Invasive software; Machine learning; Security

Indexed keywords

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; DETECTION RATES; DETECTION TECHNOLOGY; HOST DEFENSE; INFORMATION LOSS; INVASIVE SOFTWARE; MACHINE-LEARNING; MALWARE DETECTION; MALWARES; RESEARCH AREAS; RESEARCH INITIATIVES; SECURITY; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TACTICAL DECISION MAKINGS; TEST ACCURACY; TEST RESULTS; THREAT CAPABILITY;

DECISION MAKING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 78649265912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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