Dissertations and Theses - Center for Cybersecurity and Cyber Operations
Ph.D. Dissertations and Master's Theses
The thesis and PhD dissertations are the capstone achievements of a student's academic endeavors at NPS. A permanent copy of these documents are placed in the Dudley Knox Library's digital archives. The Library holds all NPS theses and dissertations.
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Orwat, M., "A Decision Framework for Enhancing MANET Stability and Security," Doctorial Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
Shaffer, A., "An Application Of Alloy To Static Analysis For Secure Information Flow And Verification Of Software Systems," Doctorial Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008.
Afinidad, F. B., "An Interval Algebra-Based Temporal Access Control Protection Architecture," Doctoral Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005.
Bibighaus, D. L., "Applying Doubly Labeled Transition Systems to the Refinement Paradox," Doctoral Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
VanPutte, M., "A Computational Model and Multi-Agent Simulation of the INFOSEC Domain," Doctoral Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2002.
Franconia, Jamie C., Mitigating Insider Threats in Virtual Environments with Deception Detection, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2021.
Pommer, P., Design and Implementation of a Distributed Ledger to Support Data Survivability in an Unmanned Multi-Vehicle System, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2021.
Richardson, T., Learning Objective Based Development of CyberCIEGE Instructional Video Game Scenarios, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, June 2021.
H. Rosario, H., CyberCIEGE Videos: From English to Spanish; V ́ıdeos de CyberCIEGE: Del Ingl ́es al Espan ̃ol, Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, June 2021.
Carter, N., Design and Verification of a Distributed Ledger Protocol for Distributed Autonomous Systems Using Monterey Phoenix, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2020.
H. T. Cheer, Choice Confidence and Persuasion Resistance Through Mouse Action Observation,” M.S. thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, December 2020
Dougherty, J. T., Evasion Of Honeypot Detection Mechanisms Through Improved Interactivity Of ICS- Based Systems, M.S. Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2020
Harter, G., Metamorphic and Polymorphic Techniques For Obfuscation Of K-Ary Malicious Codes, Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2020.
Martineau, J., Mapping Mobile IPv6 Providers, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2020
Moore, G. M., Blockgrid – A Blockchain-Mediated Cyber-Physical Instructional Platform, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, December 2020.
Purser, J., Using Generative Adversarial Networks For Intrusion Detection In Industrial Control Systems, Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, December 2020
Norton, G., Security Analysis of Industrial Security Appliances, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, September 2020.
Thordarson, K.E., Analysis Of EUI-64 Based Addressing And Associated Vulnerabilities, Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2020
Walker, M.H., The Science Of Speech: Developing A Computational Model For Digital Communication And Its Ramifications For Author Identification In Cybersecurity, Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2020.
Wikman, E., Static Analysis Tools for Detecting Stack-based Buffer Overflows, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, June 2020.
Hardt, A., Characterizing BBP Community Irregularities Towards An Anomaly Detection Engine, M.S. Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2019
Kalinowski, P. Neural Networks for Malware Detection Using Static Analysis, M.S. thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2019
Kvitchko, T., Sunup: ICMP Timestamp Behaviors In Fingerprinting, M.S. Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2019
Sowers, R. and Rogers, A., Defensive Binary Code Instrumentation To Protect Against Buffer Overflow Attacks, Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2019.
Affield, D. W., McPherson, P.C., and Budzitowski, D.E, Cloaking Malware with Respect to Static Analysis, Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2018.
Alcorn, D.R., Educational Guidance on Extensible Software Development, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2018.
Atadika, M. K, Applying U.S. Military Cybersecurity Policies to Cloud Architectures, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2018.
Austin, S., Security Analysis of Industrial Firewalls, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, December 2018.
Garcia, D., (on distribution hold), Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, September 2018.
Gentile, B. Officer Data Card (ODC) Dissemination Policy, Model and Blockchain-based Accountability Mechanism, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, June 2018.
Glasser, D. P., Longitudinal Study of Large-Scale Traceroute Results, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgrad- uate School, Monterey, California, March 2018.
Hyun, D., Collecting Cyberattack Data for Industrial Control Systems with Honeypots, M.S. Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2018.
Shaw, M., A Blockchain Testbed for DoD Applications, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, September 2018.
Timmerman, M., Enabling Collaboration and Visualization of Complex Operational Technology Computer Networks and Augmented Reality Technology, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, September 2018.
Wanic, E.E., Cyber Weapons and Deterrence, M.S. Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2018.
Ballesteros, P.R., Investigating background pictures for picture gesture authentication, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, June 2017.
Banuelos, C. A., Development of information assurance protocol for low bandwidth nanosatellite communications, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2017.
Fessler, K. E., Analysis of space based infrared system (sbirs) block 10 ground segment cybersecurity, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2017.
Gormley, J., Fuzz Testing of Industrial Network Protocols in Programmable Logic Controllers, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, December, 2017.
Khosalim, J. Implementation of a Parameterization Framework for Cybersecurity Laboratories, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, March, 2017.
Fischer, B. D. and Lato, A. M., A taxonomy for software-defined networking, man-in-the-middle attacks, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2016.
Foster, H., “Why does MPTCP have to make things so complicated?”: cross-path NIDS evasion and countermeasures, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2016.
McKenna, S., Detection and classification of web robots with honeypots, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2016.
Shing, L., An improved tarpit for network deception, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2016.
Tacliad, F., ENIP fuzz: A scapy-based ethernet/ip fuzzer for security testing, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2016.
Yee, J., Characterizing crowd participation and productivity of foldit through web scraping, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2016.
Master's Theses 2014
David Bergesen, D., A Prioritization Matrix for Intelligence Feeds to the Distributed Common Ground System – Navy (DCGS-N), Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, March 2014.
Theses 2013
Doucet, R., Dontchev, D. M., Burden, J. and Skoff T., Big Data Analytics Test Bed, Master's Capstone Project Report, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2013.
Theses 2012
Wolf. S., Non-Digital Games for Computer Security Concepts, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December, 2012.
Swisher, D., Automated Policy Updating Using a Semantic Wiki, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December, 2012.
Rimando, R., Development and Analysis of Security Policies in Security Enhanced Android, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December, 2012.
McGrath, G., Function Matching Using Similiarity Metrics, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December, 2012.
Edgar, S., Symbolic Execution from an Emulator, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December, 2012.
Delaroderie, J., Clustering Similarity Digest Bloom Filters in Self-Organizing Maps, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December, 2012.
Hom, M., Symbolic Execution Over Native X86, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June, 2012.
Hirst, N., The Implications of Virtual Machine Introspection for Digital Forensics on Non-Quiescent Virtual Machines, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June, 2012.
Biblarz, A., Web Syndication in a Multilevel Security Environment, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, April, 2012.
Tan, Hwee Meng, USB Support for the Least Privilege Separation Kernel, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2012.
Theses 2011
Kostopoulos, S., A Concept for Continuous Monitoring That Reduces Redundancy in Information Assurance Processes, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2011.
Theses 2010
Ang, K. K., "A Multilevel Secure Constrained Intrusion Detection System Prototype," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2010.
Beech, Z. W. , "A Formal Security Model for Emergency Access to Information," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010. (Abstract/PDF not available at this time)
Guillen, J., "Least Privilege Separation Kernel Storage Hierarchy Prototype For The Trusted Computing Exemplar Project," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.
Martinsen, J., "Implementation Of Intel Virtual Machine Extension Root Operation On The NPS Least Privilege Separation Kernel," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2010.
Ng, Y.C., "An Application for Normal and Critical Operations in a Tactical MLS System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2010.
O'Connell, R., Descovich, C., "Decreasing Variance In Response Time To Singular Incidents Of Piracy In The Horn Of Africa Area Of Operation," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.
Quah, R., "Securing Emergency State Data in a Tactical Computing Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2010.
Quek, C. L., "A Configuration Framework And Implementation For The Least Privilege Separation Kernel," Maste'rs Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2010.
Toh, B.P., "Design And Implementation Of An Audit Subsystem For A Separation Kernel," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2010.
Yoong, H. L., "IP Services Design and Implementation in a Prototype Device for Transient Tactical Access to Sensitive Information," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2010.
Theses 2009
Cowan-Sharp, J. "A Study of Topic and Topic Change in Conversational Threads," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.
Farrell, P. F., "A Framework For Automated Digital Forensic Reporting," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009.
Mok, C., "National Authentication Framework Implementation Study," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.
Regan, J. E., "The Forensic Potential of Flash Memory," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.
Roussas, G., "Visualization Of Client-Side Web Browsing And Email Activity," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009.
Skaff, S. J. C., "Probability Distributions Over Cryptographic Protocols," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009.
Slack, A. A., "Digital Authentication For Official Bulk Email," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009.
Venema, J. P., Shu, J. L. Y., "Investigation Into The Impacts Of Migration To Emergent Nsa Suite B Encryption Standards," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009.
Welliver, T. M., "Configuration Tool Prototype for the Trusted Computing Exemplar Project," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.
Theses 2008
Adams, C. M., "VOIP Quality Measurements in a Multilevel Secure (MLS) Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 2008.
Adams, Paige, "Conversion Thread Extraction and Topic Detection in Text-Based Chat," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
Bassi, S. D., "An Automated Acquisition System for Media Exploitation," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, June 2008.
Huynh, Daniel P., "Exploring and validating data mining algorithms for use in data ascription," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
Koh, C. L. and Ng, E. S., "Security Modeling and Correctness Proof Using Specware and Isabelle," Master’s thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, December 2008.
LaVelle, C., "A Preliminary Analysis for Porting XML-Based Chat to MYSEA," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
McLaren, Simon R., "Reliability of iris recognition as a means of identity verification and future impact on transportation worker identification credential," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.
Migletz, James J., "Automated metadata extraction," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
Tenhunen, T. F., "Implementing an Intrusion Detection System in the MYSEA Architecture," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
Theses 2007
Carter, D. W., "An Oskit-Based Implementation Of Least Privilege Separation Kernel Memory Partitioning," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Eatinger, C., "Testing Automation Tools For Secure Software Development," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Goh, H. C., "Intrusion Deception in Defense of Computer Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.
McManus, S. C., "Predicting Host Level Reachability via Static Analysis of Routing Protocol Configuration," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007.
Murphy, E. J. "Counterintelligence Through Malicious Code Analysis," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Ong, K. L., "Design And Implementation Of Wiki Services In A Multilevel Secure Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007.
Phelps, D. A., "Alloy Experiments For A Least Privilege Separation Kernel," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Pohl, M., "Experimentation And Evaluation Of Ipv6 Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007.
Portner, A. D., "A Prototype Of Multilevel Data Integration In The MYSEA Testbed," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007.
Wiese, B., "Preliminary Analysis Of A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Initialization Process," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Theses 2006
Bradney, J. A., "Use Of Webdav To Support A Virtual File System In A Coalition Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2006.
Chew, Heng Hui, "A Secure Alert System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006.
Chiang, K. H., "A Prototype Implementation Of A Time Interval File Protection System (TIFPS) In Linux," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.
Cone, B. D., "A CyberCIEGE Campaign Fulfilling Navy Information Assurance Training And Awareness Requirements," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
Cullum, J. J., "Performance Analysis Of Automated Attack Graph Generation Software," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006.
DeCloss, D. P., "An Analysis Of Specware And Its Usefulness In The Verification Of High Assurance Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2006.
Duong, B. T., "Comparisons Of Attacks On Honeypots With Those On Real Networks," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
Egan, M., "An Implementation Of Remote Application Support In A Multilevel Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
Ellch, Jonathan P., "Fingerprinting 802.11 devices," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.
Estlund, M. J., "A Survey And Analysis Of Access Control Architectures For Xml Data," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
Lim, S. H., "Assessing the Effects of Honeypots on Cyber-Attackers," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006.
Radowicz, Jody L., "Exploring fields with shift registers," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.
Urrea, J. M., "An Analysis Of Linux Ram Forensics," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
Wiberg, K. C., "Identifying Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems On A Network Via Remote Reconnaissance," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.
Theses 2005
Barwinski, M., "Taxonomy Of Spyware And Empirical Study Of Network Drive-By-Downloads," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Bui, S., "Single Sign-On Solution For MYSEA Services," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Cassidy, R. H. F., "Automating Case Reports For The Analysis Of Digital Evidence," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Chua, C., "A CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Software Integrity And Management Of Air-Gapped Networks In A Military Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2005.
Cooper, R. C., "Remote Application Support in a Multi-Level Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2005.
Craft, B. A. Jr., "Investigation Into the Potential Efficiencies and Added Security Provided by Employing RFID Technology To Monitor the Production of Materials," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Gonzales, D. V., "An Analysis Of Automated Solutions For The Certification And Accreditation Of Navy Medicine Information Assets," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Horn, J. F., "IPSec-Based Dynamic Security Services for the MYSEA Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005.
Kane, D. R., "Web-Based Dissemination System for the Trusted Computing Exemplar Project," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005.
Labbe, K. G., "An Evaluation of Two Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005.
Lysinger III, J.E., "Multilevel Print Server Requirements for DoN Application," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Mikus, N. A., "An Analysis of Disc Carving Techniques"," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2005.
Mun, N. C., "A CyberCIEGE Scenario To Illustrate Classified Information Management In Multilevel Secure Systems For Military Command And Control," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2005.
Noonan, R. J., "Vulnerability Assessment of the SLC 5/05 Programmable Controller (U)," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005. (Access to this thesis is restricted))
Ruppar, C. A., "Identity Theft Prevention In CyberCIEGE," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2005.
Tan, N. K., "A Firewall Training Program Based On CyberCIEGE," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2005.
Todd P. Anderson, (Classified), Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2005.
Mueller, D. S., "Authentication Scenario For Cyberciege," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Tse, L., "Feasibility Study of VOIP Integration into the MYSEA Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Vernon, R. C., "A Design For Sensing The Boot Type Of A Trusted Platform Module Enabled Computer," Maste'rs Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Theses 2004
Ambers, V. P., and Kelly, A. M., "Installation, Configuration and Operational Testing of a PKI Certificate Server and its Supporting Services," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004.
Athanasopoulos, V., "Design and Development of a Web-Based DOD PKI Common Access Card (CAC) Instruction Tool," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Baumgartner, T. J., and Phillips, M. D. W., "Implementation of a Network Address Translation Mechanism Over IPV6," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004.
Burrows, D., and Lemott Jr., D., "Evaluation of the 3COM Embedded Firewall System and its Role in Protection Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attacks," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Christensen, R. R., (Classified), Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 200
Cisneros, J. J., (Classified), Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004
Clark J. L., "High Assurance Project Evidence Presentation Using Semantic Graphs in XML," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004
Craven, D. S., "A Formal Analysis of the MLS LAN: TCB-To-TCBE, Session Status, and TCBE-T0-Session Server Protocols," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
Dodge, C. A., "Recommendations for Secure Initialization Routines in Operating Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
Fielk, K. W., "CyberCIEGE Scenerio Illustrating Integrity Risks to a Military Like Facility," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
Gross, M. E., "Configuration Management Evaluation Guidance for High Robustness Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Guild, J., "Scripting Quality of Security Service (QoSS) Safeguard Measures for the Suggested INFOCON System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Guild, J. R., "Design and Analysis of a Model Reconfigurable Cyber-Exercise Laboratory (RCEL) for Information Assurance Education," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Hart, D., "An Approach To Vulnerability Assessment For Navy Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (Scada) Sytems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.
Herbig, C. F., "Use of OpenSSH Support for Remote Login to a Multilevel Secure System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2004.
Hilchie, A. T., "A Trusted Path Design and Implementation for Security Enhanced Linux," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
Johns, Jr. K. W., "Toward Managing and Automating CyberCIEGE Scenario Definition File Creation," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Lamorie, J., "A CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Secrecy Issues in an Internal Corporate Network Connected to the Internet," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
LaMore, R.L., "CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Secrecy Issues Through Mandatory and Discretionary Access Control Policies in a Multi-Level Security Network," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004.
Meyer, M.K., "A CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Multilevel Secrecy Issues in an Air Operations Center Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004.
Nguyen, L. K., "Predicting Catastrophic BGP Routing Instabilities," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Phan, K. Q., "Design and Implementation of NFS for a Multilevel Secure System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Rogers, J., "Secure Distribution of Open Source Information," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2004.
Rowlands, D., and Shumaker, T., "Risk assessment of the Naval Postgraduate School Gigabit Network, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, September 2004.
Sears, J. D., "Simultaneous Connection Management and Protection in a Multilevel Security Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
Sherman, M. A., "An Analysis of VPN Solutions and Best Practices for Use in Conjunction with Cyber Attack and Defend Exercises," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
Ward, M. P., "An Architectural Framework for Describing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004.
Wee, O. K., "Wireless Network Security: Design Considerations For An Enterprise Network," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004.
Theses 2003
Alageel, S. M., "Development of an Information Security Awareness Training Program for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF)," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.
Bailey, C. F., "Analysis of Security Solutions in Large Enterprises," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.
Carrillo, C. M., "Continuous Biometric Authentication for Authorized Aircraft Personnel: A Proposed Design," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.
Galante, V. J., "Feasibility of Automatic FIWC Website Noncompliance Monitoring and Enforcement Activities," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.
MacMichael Jr., J. L., "A Survey and Security Strength Classification of PKI Certificate Revocation Management Implementations," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.
O'Neal, M. R., "A Design Comparison Between IPV4 and IPV6 in the Context of MYSEA, and Implementation of an IPV6 MYSEA Prototype," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.
Teo, T. L., "Scenario Selection And Student Assessment Modules For CyberCIEGE," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, December 2003.
Ubhayakar, S. S., "Evaluation of Program Specification and Verification Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.
Theses 2002
Anderson, E., A Demonstration of the Subversion Threat: Facing a Critical Responsibility in the Defense of Cyberspace, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2002.
Aposporis, P., Framework for Managing Metadata Security Tags as the Basis for Making Security Decisions, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2002.
Goktepe, M., "Windows XP Operating System Security Analysis," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, October 2002.
Mohan, R., XML Based Adaptive IPSEC Policy Management in a Trust Management Context, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002.
Morrison, J. D., IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Network Security through Location Authentication, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002.
Senter III, J. W., and Thornton, C. S., Information Technology (IT) Ethics: Training and Awareness Materials for the Department of the Navy, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September and June 2002, respectively
Smith, K. R., "Linux, OpenBSD, and Talisker: A Comparative Complexity Analysis," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2002.
Price, P. D., "Toward an Internet Service Provider (ISP) Centric Security Approach," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2002.
Vojtik, R., "Exploiting IEEE 802.11B Networks: An Electronic Warfare Approach," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2002. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Theses 2001
Agar, C. D., "Dynamic Parameterization of IPSec," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2001.
Brock, J., "Supporting the Secure Halting of User Sessions and Processes in the Linux Operating System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2001.
Brodhun, C. P., "Prioritization of IA Technology in a Resource Constrained Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2001. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Burns, T., "Analysis of Thread Management in Windows CE," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2001.
Glover, M., "Integrating a Trusted Computing Base Extensions Server and Secure Session Server into the Linux Operating System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2001.
Haynes, L. D., "Implications of User Identification Devices (UIDS) for the United States," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2001.
Hestad, D., "A Discretionary-Mandatory Model as Applied to Network Centric Warfare and Information Operations," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2001.
McGovern, S., "INFOSEC Requirements for a Coalition Wide Area Network," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2001.
McKinley, D. R., "Implementing the Naval Postgraduate School's Security Policy Using Windows 2000," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2001.
Negi, C., "Using Network Management Systems to Detect Distributed Denial of Service Attacks," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2001.
Pedersen, C., "Trust and Its Ramifications for the DoD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2001.
Pereira, B., "Analyzing Input/Output Subsystem Security in Windows CE," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2001.
Stocks, A. "Requirements for the Deployment of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in the USMC Tactical Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2001.
Whalen, T., Human Factors in Coast Guard Computer Security - An Analysis of the USCG's Current Awareness Level and Potential Techniques to Improve Security Program Viability, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2001.
Ziemba, M., A Training Framework for the Department of Defense Public Key Infrastructure, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2001.
Theses 2000
Agacayak, C., "Analysis of Mechanisms for TCBE Control of Object Reuse in Clients," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2000.
Bartram, S., "Supporting a Trusted Path for the Linux Operating System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Bersack, E. L., "Implementation of a HTTP (Web) Server on a High Assurance Multilevel Secure Platform, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2000.
Brown, E., "Implementation of an SMTP Server for a High Assurance Multilevel LAN," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2000.
Everette, T., "Enhancement of Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) for User-friendly Multilevel Mail Management," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2000.
Polk, K. V., "Transparent Detection of QOS Violations for Continuos Applications," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Roeper, F., "An Analysis of Current and Future Cryptographic Token Technology and its Applications," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2000. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Rossetti, R., "A Mail File Administration Tool for a Multilevel High Assurance LAN," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2000.
Turan, B., "Analysis for A Trusted Computing Base Extension Prototype Board," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2000.
Wilson, J. D., "Trusted Networking in a Multilevel Secure Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Theses 1999
Balmer, S. "Trusted Computing Base Extension Control System For Client Workstations," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
Bryer-Joyner, S. and Heller, S., "Local Area Network Services for a High Assurance Multilevel Network," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999.
Clark, P., "A Linux-Based Support of Low-Cost Access Control Policies," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
Eads, B., "Developing a High Assurance Multi-level Mail Server," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999.
Fowler, J., "Security Planning for Wireless Networks," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999.
Hansen, A., "Public Key Infrastructure Interoperability: A Security Services Approach to Support Transfer to Trust," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
Kremer H. S., "Real-Time Intrusion Detection For Windows Nt Based On Navy It -21 Audit Policy," Maste'rs Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
Joyner, L., "Development of a Load-Balancing Mechanism for Parallel Firewalls," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999.
Morris, D., and Rowe, D., "PKI Roadmap for the USMC," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
Oakes, D. "Migration Paths for Responding to Operating Systems Consolidation from a Network Security Perspective," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
Robin, S., "Analyzing the Intel Pentium's Architecture to Support Virtual Machine Monitors," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
Theses Theses 1998
Darroca, G. G., "A Flow-Based Security Protocol for Fast IP Tag Switching," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1998
Hackerson, J., "Constructing a Trusted Computing Base Extension in Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Personal Computers for Multilevel Secure Local Area Networks," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1998
Isa, H., "Utilizing Hardware Features for Secure Thread Management," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998 (Abstract, PDF)
Macchione, W. A., "The Capabilities, Propagation Effects, and Targeting of Computer Systems," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1998 (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Wright, R., "Integrity Architecture and Security Services Demonstration for Management System for Heterogeneous Networks," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998
Theses 1997
Barrus, J., "Intrusion Detection in Real-Time in a Multi-Node Multi Host Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997.
Buettner, R., and Harris, R., "Comparative Analysis of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Encryption Products for Use in Transmitting Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) Data," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Downey, J., and Robb, D., "A High Assurance Label-Based Mail Service for LANs," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997.
English, J., "Security Analysis for a Management System for Heterogeneous Networks (MSHN)," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997.
Umentum, B., "Using Web Technology to Disseminate INFOSEC Lectures," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997.
Weldon, S., "Security Issues in the JMCIS-Ashore Command and Control System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997.
Theses 1996
Campbell, H., and Currie III, D. L., "Implementation and Efficiency of Steganographic Techniques in Bitmapped Images and Embedded Data Survivability Against Lossy Compression Schemes," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1996.
Heaton, L. A., "Radiant Mercury: An Assessment of the Issues," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1996. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Lee, J. J., McKenna, T., "The Object-Oriented Database and Processing of Electronic Warfare Data," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1996.
Fulp, J. D., "A National Imagery System Security Policy," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1996. (Access to this thesis is restricted)
Lucas, J., "Ensuring a C2 Level of Trust and Interoperability in a Networked Windows NT Environment," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1996.
Marlett, R., "Analysis of General Magic Telescript with Respect to Requirements," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1996.
Wootten, D., "A Graphic User Interface for Rapid Integration of Steganography Software," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1996.
Theses 1995
DeJong, R., "A Study of the Covert Channels in a Trusted Unix System," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1995.
Theses 1994
Muschalek, K., "Mandatory Security Policy Enforcement in Commercial Off-the-Shelf Database Management System Software: A Comparative Analysis of Informix On-Line/Secure and Trusted ORACLE," Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1994.