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In dieser Forschungsarbeit wird die Datensicherheit von Microsoft Azure analysiert und bewertet. Die Bewertung findet dabei aus der Sicht von Unternehmen statt. Im ersten Abschnitt wird zunächst der grundlegende Aufbau und die unterschiedlichen Formen des Cloud Computing beschrieben. Im zweiten Teil wird ein Vergleich der drei größten Cloud Anbieter vollzogen. Der letzte Teil besteht aus der Evaluation der Datensicherheit von Azure, wobei auf Aspekte wie Datenschutz, Bedrohungen und Schutzmaßnahmen eingegangen wird. Abschließend wird eine Empfehlung für das Unternehmen Bechtle GmbH Offenburg IT-Systemhaus abgegeben.
Im Verlauf der Arbeit stellt sich heraus, dass Azure eine ausreichende Datensicherheit bieten kann. Allerdings wird deutlich, dass durch die Kombination von mehreren Nebenfaktoren wie das Patch-Verhalten oder die Antwortzeit auf Sicherheitsschwachstellen seitens Microsofts, eine große Gefahr für die Daten von Unternehmen entstehen kann. Demnach ist Microsoft als Anbieter ein größeres Problem für die Sicherheit von Daten in Azure als der Cloud-Dienst selbst.
Die Thesis beschäftigt sich mit dem Kommunikationsprotokoll Lightweight Machine to Machine, welches für das Internet of Things entwickelt wurde. Es soll untersucht werden, wie das Protokoll funktioniert und wie es eingesetzt werden kann. Ebenfalls soll die Thesis zeigen, wie und ob Lightweight Machine to Machine über Long Term Evolution for Machines für Anwendungen mit begrenzten Ressourcen geeignet ist. Um diese Fragestellung zu beantworten, wurde das Protokoll auf Grund seiner Spezifikation und seinen Softwareimplementationen untersucht. Daraufhin wurde ein Versuchssystem entworfen und dieses anschließend auf sein Laufzeitverhalten und auf sein Energieverbrauch getestet. Die Evaluation des Protokolls ergab, dass es viele sinnvolle Funktionen zugeschnitten auf Geräte im Internet of Things besitzt und diese Funktionen kompakt und verständlich umsetzt. Da das Protokoll noch relativ jung ist, stellt es an verschiedenen Punkten eine Herausforderung dar. Die Tests des Versuchssystems ergaben, dass Lightweight Machine to Machine sich unter bestimmten Bedingungen für ressourcenbegrenzte Anwendungen eignet.
Licht war für die Menschheit schon immer ein Hilfsmittel zur Orientierung. Das Zusammenspiel zwischen hellen und schattierten Oberflächen macht eine räumliche Wahrnehmung erst möglich. Die Lokalisierung von Lichtquellen bietet darüber hinaus für zahlreiche Anwendungsfelder, wie beispielsweise Augmented Reality, ein großes Potential.
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, ein neuronales Netzwerk zu entwickeln, welches mit Hilfe eines selbst generierten, synthetischen Datensatzes eine Lichtsetzung parametrisiert. Dafür wurden State-of-the-Art Netzwerke aus der digitalen Bildverarbeitung eingesetzt.
Zu Beginn der Arbeit mussten die Eigenschaften der Lichtsetzung extrahiert werden. Eine weitere fundamentale Anforderung war die Aufbereitung des Wissens von Deep Learning.
Für die Generierung des synthetischen Datensatzes wurde eigens ein Framework entwickelt, welches auf der Blender Engine basiert.
Anschließend wurden die generierten Bilder und Metadaten in einem abgewandelten VGG16- und ResNet50-Netz trainiert, validiert und evaluiert.
Eine gewonnene Erkenntnis ist, dass sich künstlich generierte Daten eignen um ein neuronales Netz zu trainieren. Des Weiteren konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich mit Hilfe von Deep Learning Lichtsetzungsparameter extrahieren lassen.
Eine weiterführende Forschungsaufgabe könnte mit dem vorgeschlagenen Ansatzdie Lichtinszenierung von Augmented Reality Anwendungen verbessern.
Organizations striving to achieve success in the long term must have a positive brand image which will have direct implications on the business. In the face of the rising cyber threats and intense competition, maintaining a threat-free domain is an important aspect of preserving that image in today's internet world. Domain names are often near-synonyms for brand names for numerous companies. There are likely thousands of domains that try to impersonate the big companies in a bid to trap unsuspecting users, usually falling prey to attacks such as phishing or watering hole. Because domain names are important for organizations for running their business online, they are also particularly vulnerable to misuse by malicious actors. So, how can you ensure that your domain name is protected while still protecting your brand identity? Brand Monitoring, for example, may assist. The term "Brand Monitoring" applies only to keep tabs on an organization's brand performance, reception, and overall online presence through various online channels and platforms [1]. There has been a rise in the need of maintaining one's domain clear of any linkages to malicious activities as the threat environment has expanded. Since attackers are targeting domain names of organizations and luring unsuspecting users to visit malicious websites, domain monitoring becomes an important aspect. Another important aspect of brand abuse is how attackers leverage brand logos in creating fake and phishing web pages. In this Master Thesis, we try to solve the problem of classification of impersonated domains using rule-based and machine learning algorithms and automation of domain monitoring. We first use a rule-based classifier and Machine Learning algorithms to classify the domains gathered into two buckets – "Parked" and "Non-Parked". In the project's second phase, we will deploy object detection models (Scale Invariant Feature Transform - SIFT and Multi-Template Matching – MTM) to detect brand logos from the domains of interest.
Even though the internet has only been there for a short period, it has grown tremendously. To- day, a significant portion of commerce is conducted entirely online because of increased inter- net users and technological advancements in web construction. Additionally, cyberattacks and threats have expanded significantly, leading to financial losses, privacy breaches, identity theft, a decrease in customers’ confidence in online banking and e-commerce, and a decrease in brand reputation and trust. When an attacker pretends to be a genuine and trustworthy institution, they can steal private and confidential information from a victim. Aside from that, phishing has been an ongoing issue for a long time. Billions of dollars have been shed on the global economy. In recent years, there has been significant progress in the development of phishing detection and identification systems to protect against phishing attacks. Phishing detection technologies frequently produce binary results, i.e., whether a phishing attempt was made or not, with no explanation. On the other hand, phishing identification methodologies identify phishing web- pages by visually comparing webpages with predetermined authentic references and reporting phishing together with its target brand, resulting in findings that are understandable. However, technical difficulties in the field of visual analysis limit the applicability of currently available solutions, preventing them from being both effective (with high accuracy) and efficient (with little runtime overhead). Here, we evaluate existed framework called Phishpedia. This hybrid deep learning system can recognize identity logos from webpage screenshots and match logo variants of the same brand with high precision. Phishpedia provides high accuracy with low run- time. Lastly, unlike other methods, Phishpedia does not require training on any phishing sam- ples whatsoever. Phishpedia exceeds baseline identification techniques (EMD, PhishZoo, and LogoSENSE), inaccurately detecting phishing pages in lengthy testing using accurate phishing data. The effectiveness of Phishpedia was tested and compared against other standard machine learning algorithms and some state-of-the-art algorithms. The given solutions performed better than different algorithms in the given dataset, which is impressive.
Technology advancement has played a vital role in business development; however, it has opened a broad attack surface. Passwords are one of the essential concepts used in applications for authentication. Companies manage many corporate applications, so the employees must meet the password criteria, which leads to password fatigue. This thesis addressed this issue and how we can overcome this problem by theoretically implementing an IAM solution. In this, we disused MFA, SSO, biometrics, strong password policies and access control. We introduced the IAM framework that should be considered while implementing the IAM solution. Implementing an IAM solution adds an extra layer of security.
Eine neue Programmiersprache zu erlernen kann für Anfänger:innen manchmal schwer sein, selbst für Programmiersprachen wie Python, die bekannt dafür sind Einsteigerfreundlich zu sein. Denn selbst wenn die Syntax eines Python Programms schnell verstanden wird, ist oft nicht direkt erkenntlich wie der Code hinter dem Programm funktioniert. Anfänger:innen können dabei auch auf ihre Grenzen stoßen, den Ablauf eines Programmes nur alleine durch den Programmcode zu verstehen. Denn der Text der den Code ausmacht, kann auch nur bis zu einem gewissen Grad vermitteln wie oder was genau abläuft. Um den Ablauf eines Programms besser vermitteln zu können, wird der Code oft z.B. mit Diagrammen visualisiert. Visuelle Elemente können ebenfalls zusätzlich zum Code mehr Unterstützung leisten. Das Thema dieser Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Visualisierung von Python Programmen in der Entwicklungsumgebung Visual Studio Code, um Programmieranfänger:innen und Student:innen beim Erlernen der Programmiersprache Python zu unterstützen. Die Entwicklung der Visualisierung beinhaltet, das Erstellen einer Erweiterung in Visual Studio Code, die unter anderem das Debug Adapter Protocol einsetzt um mit dem Python Debugger zu kommunizieren.
Encryption techniques allow storing and transferring of sensitive information securely by using encryption at rest and encryption in transit, respectively. However, when computation is performed on these sensitive data, the data needs to be decrypted first and encrypted again after performing the computations. During the computations, the sensitive data becomes vulnerable to attackers as it's in decrypted form. Homomorphic encryption, a special type of encryption technique that allows computation on encrypted data can be used to solve the above-mentioned problem. The best way to achieve maximum security with homomorphic encryption is to perform at least the homomorphic encryption and decryption on the client side (browser) of a web application by not trusting the server. At present time there are many libraries with different homomorphic schemes available for homomorphic encryption. However, there are very few to no JavaScript libraries available to perform homomorphic encryption on the client side of any web application. This thesis mainly focuses on the JavaScript implementation of client-side homomorphic encryption. The fully homomorphic encryption scheme BFV is selected for the implementation. After implementing the fully homomorphic encryption scheme based on the “py-fhe” library, tests are also carried out in order to determine the applicability (in terms of time consumption, security and correctness) of this implementation in a web application by comparing the performance and security for different test cases and different settings.
Risk-based Cybermaturity Assessment Model - Protecting the company against ransomware attacks
(2023)
Ransomware has become one of the most catastrophic attacks in the previous decade, hurting businesses of all sorts worldwide. So, no organization is safe, and most companies are reviewing their ransomware defensive solutions to avoid business and operational hazards. IT departments are using cybersecurity maturity assessment frameworks like CMMC, C2M2, CMMI, NIST, CIS, CPP, and others to analyze organization security capabilities. In addition to maturity assessment models for the process layer and human pillar, there are much research on the analysis, identification, and defense of cyber threats in product/software layers that propose state-of-the-art approaches.
This motivates a comprehensive ransomware cyber security solution. Then, a crucial question arises: “How companies can measure the security maturity of controls in a specific danger for example for Ransomware attack?” Several studies and frameworks addressed this subject.
Complexity of understanding the ransomware attack, Lack of comprehensive ransomware defense solutions and Lack of cybermaturity assessment model for ransomware defense solutions are different aspects of problem statement in this study. By considering the most important limitations to developing a ransomware defense cybermaturity assessment method, this study developed a cybermaturity assessment methodology and implemented a Toolkit to conduct cyber security self-assessment specifically for ransomware attack to provide a clearer vision for enterprises to analyze the security maturity of controls regardless of industry or size.
Durch die Fortschritte im Bereich der Quantencomputer rückt der Zeitpunkt näher, dass Quantencomputer die bestehenden mathematischen Probleme lösen können, welche in den aktuellen Public-Key-Verschlüsselungsverfahren verwendet werden. Als Reaktion darauf wurde ein Standardisierungsprozess für quantensichere Public-Key-Verschlüsselungsverfahren gestartet. Diese Arbeit analysiert diese und vergleicht sie untereinander, um Stärken und Schwächen der einzelnen Verfahren aufzuzeigen.
On a regular basis, we hear of well-known online services that have been abused or compromised as a result of data theft. Because insecure applications jeopardize users' privacy as well as the reputation of corporations and organizations, they must be effectively secured from the outset of the development process. The limited expertise and experience of involved parties, such as web developers, is frequently cited as a cause of risky programs. Consequently, they rarely have a full picture of the security-related decisions that must be made, nor do they understand how these decisions affect implementation accurately.
The selection of tools and procedures that can best assist a certain situation in order to protect an application against vulnerabilities is a critical decision. Regardless of the level of security that results from adhering to security standards, these factors inadvertently result in web applications that are insufficiently secured. JavaScript is a language that is heavily relied on as a mainstream programming language for web applications with several new JavaScript frameworks being released every year.
JavaScript is used on both the server-side in web applications development and the client-side in web browsers as well.
However, JavaScript web programming is based on a programming style in which the application developer can, and frequently must, automatically integrate various bits of code from third parties. This potent combination has resulted in a situation today where security issues are frequently exploited. These vulnerabilities can compromise an entire server if left unchecked. Even though there are numerous ad hoc security solutions for web browsers, client-side attacks are also popular. The issue is significantly worse on the server side because the security technologies available for server-side JavaScript application frameworks are nearly non-existent.
Consequently, this thesis focuses on the server-side aspect of JavaScript; the development and evaluation of robust server-side security technologies for JavaScript web applications. There is a clear need for robust security technologies and security best practices in server-side JavaScript that allow fine-grained security.
However, more than ever, there is this requirement of reducing the associated risks without hindering the web application in its functionality.
This is the problem that will be tackled in this thesis: the development of secure security practices and robust security technologies for JavaScript web applications, specifically, on the server-side, that offer adequate security guarantees without putting too many constraints on their functionality.
As information technology continues to advance at a rapid speed around the world, new difficulties emerge. The growing number of organizational vulnerabilities is among the most important issues. Finding and mitigating vulnerabilities is critical in order to protect an organization’s environment from multiple attack vectors.
The study investigates and comprehends the complete vulnerability management process from the standpoint of the security officer job role, as well as potential improvements. Few strategies are used to achieve efficient mitigation and the de- velopment of a process for tracking and mitigating vulnerabilities. As a result, a qualitative study is conducted in which the objective is to create a proposed vulner- ability and risk management process, as well as to develop a system for analyzing and tracking vulnerabilities and presenting the vulnerabilities in a graphical dash- board format. This thesis’s data was gathered through an organized literature study as well as through the use of various web resources. We explored numerous ap- proaches to analyze the data, such as categorizing the vulnerabilities every 30, 60, and 90 days to see whether the vulnerabilities were reoccurring or new. According to our findings, tracking vulnerabilities can be advantageous for a security officer.
We come to the conclusion that if an organization has a proper vulnerability tracking system and vulnerability management process, it can aid security officers in having a better understanding of and making plans for reducing vulnerabilities. In terms of system patching and vulnerability remediation, it will also assist the security officer in identifying areas of weakness in the process. As a result, the suggested ways provide an alternate approach to managing and tracking vulnerabilities in an effective manner, although there is still a small area that needs additional analysis and research to make it even better.
Komplexe E-Commerce-Systeme müssen heutzutage immer schneller am Markt sein und sich an diesen anpassen. Dies wird durch SaaS-Services möglich, wodurch sich die Best-of-Breed-Lösungen einsetzen lassen. Der monolithische Ansatz der meisten E-Commerce-Systeme ist für diese Anwendungen nicht mehr geeignet. Abhilfe soll der Composable-Commerce-Ansatz schaffen. Für den Ansatz wird eine Integrationslösung benötigt. Ziel dieser Thesis ist es, Integrationslösungen zu evaluieren und mithilfe von Integration-Layer-Prototypen gegenüberzustellen. Es werden zwei Integrationslösungen ausgewählt, die als Prototyp implementiert werden. Für den ersten Prototypen wird Apache Camel in einem Spring-Boot-Server verwendet. Der zweite Prototyp setzt die AWS-eigenen Services für die Integration ein. Zum Schluss werden diese durch einen Last-Test auf ihre Performance geprüft.
An organized strategy to ensure the security of an organization is an information security management system. During various security crises, hazards, and breaches, this strategy aids an organization in maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of information. Organizations are getting ready to comply with information security management system criteria. Despite this, security concerns continue to plague ineffective controls, have poor connectivity, or cause a silo effect, which is a common cause. One of the causes is a low maturity model that is not synchronized with the organization’s business processes. For a higher level of maturity, it is best to evaluate the practices.
Different maturity models on information security and cyber security capacity, management processes, security controls, implementation level, and many more have already been developed by numerous international organizations, experts, and scholars. The present models, however, do not assess a particular organization's particular practices. The evaluation of the business process is frequently neglected because measurement requirements for models are typically more concentrated on examining specific elements. For this reason, it caused the maturity assessment to not be executed explicitly and broadly.
We developed an organizational information security maturity model, a combination of work of different maturity models currently existing. While making this model, we considered that any size or type of organization could use this model. The model considers the success elements of the information security management system when assessing the implementation's effectiveness. We employed a mixed-method strategy that included both qualitative and quantitative research. With the help of a questionnaire survey, we evaluated the previous research using a qualitative methodology. In the quantitative method, we'll figure out how mature the information security management system is now. The proposed model could be used to reduce security incidents by improving implementation gaps.
Due to the increasing aging of the population, the number of elderly people requiring care is growing in most European countries. However, the number of caregivers working in nursing homes and on daily care services is declining in countries like Germany or Italy. This limits the time for interpersonal communication. Furthermore, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing during contact restrictions became more important, causing an additional reduction of personal interaction. This social isolation can strongly increase emotional stress. Robotic assistance could contribute to addressing this challenge on three levels: (1) supporting caregivers to respond individually to the needs of patients and residents in nursing homes; (2) observing patients’ health and emotional state; (3) complying with high hygiene standards and minimizing human contact if required. To further the research on emotional aspects and the acceptance of robotic assistance in care, we conducted two studies where elderly participants interacted with the social robot Misa. Facial expression and voice analysis were used to identify and measure the emotional state of the participants during the interaction. While interpersonal contact plays a major role in elderly care, the findings reveal that robotic assistance generates added value for both caregivers and patients and that they show emotions while interacting with them.
Software-defined Access (SD-Access, SDA) hat aufgrund der flexiblen, automatisierten und schnelleren Verwaltung von Unternehmensnetzwerken erhebliche Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Im Gegensatz zu traditionellen Netzwerken mit manuellen Prozessen, bietet SD-Access Zugriffsrichtlinien, Netzwerksegmentierung und Endpunktüberwachung in einer Lösung und trägt damit zur Netzwerksicherheit in Unternehmen bei.
Zunächst wird die SD-Access-Lösung von Cisco vorgestellt und herausgearbeitet, welche Komponenten dafür benötigt werden. Auf dieser Grundlage wird überprüft, welche Voraussetzungen zur Einführung von SD-Access im konkreten Anwendungsfall, dem SWR, geschaffen werden müssen.
Anschließend wird in einer experimentellen Phase im SWR-eigenen Netzwerklabor eine beispielhafte Architektur mit allen benötigten Komponenten zu Testzwecken konzeptioniert und implementiert. Dabei ist das Design und die Konfiguration möglichst nahe an der realen Umgebung des SWRs orientiert. Mit dem vorliegenden Testsetup werden dann bestimmte Funktionen und Anwendungsszenarien genauer aufgezeigt und die Relevanz für den Sicherheitsgewinn im SWR-LAN untersucht.
Darauf folgt eine abschließende Beurteilung des Sicherheits- und Effizienzgewinns durch die Einführung von SD-Access im SWR-Netzwerk.
This work addresses the conceptualization, design, and implementation of an Application Programming Interface (API) for the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) 2.0, introducing another method for distributing CSAF documents in addition to two already existing methods. These don't allow the use of flexible queries as well as filtering, which makes it difficult for operators of software and hardware to use CSAF. An API is intended to simplify this process and thus advance the automation goal of CSAF.
First, it is evaluated whether the current standard allows the implementation of an API. Any conflicts are highlighted and suggestions for standard adaptations are made. Based on these results, the API is designed to meet the previously defined requirements. Subsequently, a proof of concept is successfully developed according to the design and extensively tested with specially prepared test data. Finally, the results and the necessary standard adjustments are summarized and justified.
The conceptual design and the implementation were successfully completed. However, during the implementation of the proof of concept, some routes could not be fully implemented.
Among the billions of smartphone users in the world, Android still holds more than 80% of the market share. The applications which the users install have a specific set of features that need access to some device functionalities and sensors that may hold sensitive information about the user. Therefore, Android releases have set permission standards to let the user know what information is being disclosed to the application. Along with other security and privacy improvements, significant changes to the permission scheme are introduced with the Android 6.0 version (API level 23). In this master thesis, the Android permission scheme is tested on two devices from different eras. The evolution of Android over the years is examined in terms of confidentiality. For each device, two applications are built; one focused on extracting every piece of information within the confidentiality scope with every permission declared and/or requested, and the other app focused on getting this type of information without user notification. The resulting analysis illustrates whether how and in what way the Android permission scheme declined or improved over time.