Congratulations to Master’s Student Thomas Sattolo for his publication “Evaluation of Statistical Tests for Detecting Storage-Based Covert Channels” which is now published in online in the Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2020). In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of a selection of statistical tests for detecting storage-based covert channels and present the results of several experiments which show that complexity-based tests are effective at detecting storage-based covert channels when information is embedded into network packet header fields that are not expected to follow a particular pattern, such as the IP Identification and Time-to-Live. See Publications for more details!

Monday, September 21, 2020  |  Categories: Publication