dc.contributor.author | Onyari, Jared N | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-19T05:49:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/10148 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is an essential network security management process to grasp the network security
status precisely and rapidly by identifying the vulnerabilities on the network. Manual
check-up method by security experts and automatic vulnerability assessment tools can be
used to check the network security. But it is an inevitable option to use the automatic
vulnerability assessment tools to cover large-scale network. There are lots of automatic
vulnerability assessment tools available in the market. But the vulnerability assessment
tool cannot find an acceptable percentage of vulnerabilities by itself. When multiple
vulnerability assessment tools are used, integrating and analyzing the results can be a
time-consuming job.
This research set out to develop an automated network vulnerability assessment model
(AADRA), which can integrate various kinds of vulnerability assessment tools with the
purpose of complementing each other. A log parser application was developed and forms
an integral part of this research.
The log parser is used to analyze the data that is produced by the vulnerability assessment
tools. It takes a large data file as input and depending on the selected action gives output
accordingly.
After implementing the prototype experimentation was undertaken to compare the time it
could take to do a manual interpretation of the data from the Network vulnerability
assessment tool and the log parser analysis. Through evaluation tests done using the
prototype on the University of Nairobi network, it showed that the Log parser application
improved the analysis process by a factor of fourteen. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.subject | (Analysis , Assess , Develop , Remedite , Awareness) | en |
dc.subject | Network | en |
dc.subject | Log parsersuite | en |
dc.title | AADRA : (Analysis, Assess, Develop , Remediate , Awareness ) A network vulnerability assessment model and Log parsersuite | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.embargo.terms | 6 months | en |
local.publisher | School of Computing and Informatics | en |