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Cross-domain Situational Awareness in Computing Networks

Mulder, Samuel A.

Rapidly gaining understanding of an executable file is an extremely hard problem, yet one that is critical to support realistic network defense. Without a strong understanding of what programs do, there is no way that defenders can determine whether the presence of a given program is appropriate or not. This research effort was focused on developing ways to allow a human analyst to rapidly build understanding of the content of executable files.