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Undergrad's research wins NSBE regionals
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Sophomore DeVaris Brown captured first place for his
undergraduate research project at the National Society of Black
Engineers’ (NSBE) fall regional conference. Next March he will
be representing region four at the NSBE’s national conference.
His career path was already chosen when he entered the CS
department; his goal is a PhD in computer science from Illinois
and with the intention of teaching and research at a leading
institution. During his freshman year he became interested in
the area of security and contacted Prof. Roy Campbell. Since
then he has worked in Prof. Campbell’s lab doing research and
contributing to the development of course materials for an
introductory security course.
An outgrowth of his work with Prof. Campbell was his research
project, “Honeypots: ‘Honeyd’ The New Form of Internet
Security.” A honeypot is network resource and its sole purpose
is to attract attacks; any contact is considered suspicious. As
traffic enters and leaves the honeypot it can be monitored and
used to identify attacks and vulnerabilities, change security
policies, or create ideas for new security software.
“Honeyd is a low-interaction virtual honeypot. It simulates
TCP/UDP and the services that use the protocol, supports
numerous IP addresses, and answers to ping and trace route
commands. Honeyd does not intercept Internet traffic but
network traffic is routed towards it to make it an easily
accessible target for attacks,” said DeVaris Brown.
The department encourages undergraduates to become involved
with research projects early in their program. They have a
chance to apply the principles they learned in the classroom to
research problems currently under investigation by faculty and
graduate students. The experience gained is invaluable
especially to those students intending to pursue graduate
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