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Testing Anomaly Detection Systems

<b>Speaker: Dr. Carrie Gates, Research Staff Member, CA Labs</b><br><br>

<b>Time and Place: April 25 12:30pm - 2:00pm. Rogers Hall 227</b><br><br>

<b>Presentation abstract</b>:
Anomaly detection has been widely used as a basis for many network
intrusion detection systems.  However, anomalies themselves have not
been well-defined, and no research has been performed to determine how
security events of interest are actually related to anomalous behavior.
Additionally, little research has been done in the general area of
testing anomaly-based detection systems, resulting in systems that have
been tested using poor, out-dated data sets or locally-collected network
traffic with unknown characteristics.  In this presentation I will
introduce some of the previous research in anomaly detection, detailing
the larger research questions that have arisen from this work.  I will
focus in particular on the issues involved in testing anomaly detection
systems, presenting some initial results from my own research in this
area. 
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