• Pre CS-392
• Pre CS-631
• Pre CS-306

  Introduction

  Host forensics involves the identification, preservation, and analysis of evidence of attacks in order to identify the attackers and document their activity with sufficient reliability to justify appropriate technological, business, and legal responses. This course focuses on the technological and not on the legal components of the topic. The emphasis is on the host aspect, not on the network aspect. The technical aspect addresses analysis of intruder types and the intrusion process, review of attacks and their types, identification of attack signatures and fingerprints, application of data mining techniques, study of varied discovery methods including reverse engineering, and the extraction of information from hard disks and devices. The class will not only cover the subjects in theory but instead also provide the students with an extensive hands-on experience. The class will involve a fair amount of programming.

Teacher

David Pfeffer
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Email: dpfeffer@stevens.edu

Education

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
Honors; Minor in Law and Public Policy
Masters of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
4.0 GPA; Graduate Certificates in Computer Systems, Databases & Service Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Computing, Quantitative Software Engineering, Service Oriented Computing
Professional Societies
Member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
Courses
CS 521 TCP/IP Networking
CS 570 Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms
CS 465 Selected Topics in Computer Science
SSW 810 Selected Topics in Systems Centric Software Engineering