Fiscal Year	2019
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Electrical & Computer Engineering
Investigator(s)	McEachen, II, John C.
Sponsor	National Security Agency (DoD)
Summary	This research will investigate the use of emerging techniques in data mining and blockchain to support efforts in Computer Network Defense. Blockchain is a transformative approach for leveraging consensus in distributed computational systems to provide unparalleled decentralized and redundant security. Three primary objectives will be pursued in this research: 1) development of algorithms for establishing activity profiles with the intent of detecting deviations from these profiles; 2) the development of a blockchain with smart contracts to use in the detection malicious or abnormal activity in a network; and 3) development of data mining techniques using graph theoretical techniques for identifying associations in intrusion data. This research will support the dissertations of LCDRs Ashely McAbee and LCDR Jamie Safar and the Master’s thesis research of LCDR Stephanie Perdino and LTJG Vikram Kanth.
Keywords	blockchain computer network defense intrusion detection
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