Development of a Methodology to Counter External Cyber Attacks

Student: Eli Andrei

Supervisor: Alexander Baranov

Educational Programme: Information Security Management (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

Along with development of new technologies, methods and tools of malefactors for different carrying out the attacks are developed. The attacks are directed to receiving exclusive access to the attacked system and violations of integrity of the attacked object. The analysis of the works used this area shows that this perspective demands further development and studying. Creation of reliable mathematical models in the field, and creation of the most effective algorithms of detection, prevention and elimination of the computer attacks is necessary that shows relevance of work in that field. In this work the system of detection of the attacks of web applications was created. This system is the modern decision and is capable to ensure information security of web-centric applications from the attacks.

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