The Honeynet Project

Organization

Created in November of 2009, the Chapter is conformed by highly motivated individuals focused on research of drive-by-downloads attacks and application of the deception theory on honeypot research. The Pacific Northwest Chapter is based in Seattle, Washington.

Founder members:

Chiraag Aval, M.S.

Areas of interest and research:
• Web-based attacks
• Reverse Engineering
• Advancements in the Client Honeypot Technology

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Ph.D.

Areas of interest and research:
• Deception: next generation honeypots, reverse-engineering malware
• Forensic-ready networks: digital forensics records, NIST calibration project
• Compliance Frameworks: enterprise-wide information systems security and compliance management, forensic-ready networks

Ashish Malviya

Areas of interest and research:
• Shell code analysis
• Web based attacks
• Honeypot technology
• Enterprise Information Security and Risk Management

Julia Narvaez

Areas of interest and research:
• Drive by downloads attacks
• Deception: study of the theory of deception to improve honeypot research, and development of a methodology to apply deception theory to empirical experiments.

Christian Seifert, Ph.D. candidate.

Areas of interest and research:
• Detection of malicious web pages that launch drive-by-download attacks with client honeypots
• Web application attacks

Goals:

• Research techniques and trends used to conduct drive-by-downloads attacks.
• Develop tools to improve the analysis of the results of high interaction client honeypots.
• Formulate a methodology incorporating the concepts of the deception theory to improve the detection of drive-by-downloads attacks.