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Security Engineering is a research group based in Peshawar, Pakistan specializing in security related issues.

The purpose of this blog is to share the knowledge among different IT professionals in Pakistan for Software Engineering and specifically for Security Engineering. It also serves as our drawing board and brainstorm tool.

Current Members

Masoom Alam (PhD Scholar)

Tamleek Ali (PhD Scholar)

Muhammad Amin (MS – Networks)

Mohammad Nauman (Research Scholar – Software Engineering)

Shahbaz Khan (MS – Networks)

Please visit other pages on our site to find out more about our research work.

Responses

  1. Hi,

    I’m a graduate student in MS and am currently looking for a topic related to network security to do y thesis. More specifically, I am interested in the area related to IDS and packet analysis.

    However, I have not seem “new” development in this area. All the research papers I read are fairly old. Do any of the members here know what areas in network security is is being actively researched and whether packet analysis (rule based or anomaly based) is still worth researching .

    I would appreciate any information or references to resources to further my research.

    Thank you for your help

    By: skaoth on November 14, 2007
    at 5:50 am

  2. Let’s see now. This isn’t my area. Maybe shazkhan can help you on this. I’ve mailed him. He’ll get back to you.

    As a general rule, I’d say you need to search for some literature: try scholar.google.com or ACM or IEEE site if you have access to their content.

    By: recluze on November 14, 2007
    at 8:03 am

  3. The thing is that IDS activities and research shifted to Mandatory Access Control or simply giving kernel some understanding of access control.
    My personal research is on applying the concepts of MAC to a distributed environment. This is somewhat different than packet analysis. And packet analysis is more or less not feasible. One can analyse to the point of firewalling and iptables. There are some advance techniques which can go to lots of details. And then one can apply integrity measurements. So these are some things that are hot in research area. You can email me for details.

    By: shazkhan on November 14, 2007
    at 9:24 pm

  4. shazkhan,
    Is it possible for you to provide your email?
    I can’t seem to find it on this site.
    I would like to further this discussion with you.

    By: skaoth on November 14, 2007
    at 11:02 pm

  5. shazkhan,
    Is it possible for you to provide your email?
    I can’t seem to find it on this site.
    I would like to further this discussion with you.

    I have registered for an ACM account and have been reading the literature on IDS and packet analysis that I can find. However, there is just a tremendous amount of information to take in and am trying to limit my search into areas that are of interest and need researching on in the field of network security. I haven’t even heard of scholar.google.com (thk)

    What I’ve found out about so far is exactly shazkhan has mentioned, and research is moving away from this type of analysis but to what I’m not sure, and am hoping to find out. I’m just now coming back into this research area and when I left packet analysis was the “hot” thing

    Thanks for the input

    By: skaoth on November 14, 2007
    at 11:12 pm

  6. Shaz, i gave you your skaoth’s email address. Make sure you delete your email address from the comment after a day or two if you don’t want to get bogged with spam.

    By: recluze on November 15, 2007
    at 9:22 am

  7. Oh….!

    By: shazkhan on November 15, 2007
    at 12:45 pm


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