Matthew Thompson - Army Strong Stories

Visualizing cyber data - Opportunities and a refocused outline

Matthew Thompson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:05:00 GMT

By: Matthew Thompson
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to go to Washington D.C. and listen to a large commercial company brief their solution to insider threat. Insider threat refers to someone “on the inside,” such as an employee with the proper credentials or an outsider who somehow attains the proper credentials, who maliciously uses their access to system networks. CDT Zachary Marciano is a fellow West Point classmate (he is in my academic company as well) who is researching...read more

Visualizing cyber data - Back online

Matthew Thompson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:49:00 GMT

By: Matthew Thompson
I have been given permission to repost my blog. I will have new posts tomorrow, but for now the links to my previous posts are below. Thank you for your patience. Post 1 - Visualizing cyber data - Introduction and brief overview Post 2 - Visualizing cyber data - Focusing my research Post 3 - Visualizing cyber data - Looking at the big picture...read more

Visualizing cyber data - Posts down temporarily

Matthew Thompson — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:26:00 GMT

By: Matthew Thompson
I have taken down my posts temporarily for administrative reasons, they will be up again hopefully by the end of today along with a new post. Thank you....read more

Visualizing cyber data - Looking at the big picture

Matthew Thompson — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:20:00 GMT

By: Matthew Thompson
This morning I was excited to receive feedback on my project via email from several noteworthy members of the West Point EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) faculty. Their feedback reminded me to look at the big picture and spend my time in planning and thought instead of limiting myself to the capabilities and limits of already available tools, such as Google Earth. While using such available tools to prototype is still a real possibility in the next week and a half and was...read more

Visualizing cyber data - Focusing my research

Matthew Thompson — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:34:00 GMT

By: Matthew Thompson
In the previous post I described the general topic of my thesis and how I arrived there. Today I will describe my thesis in more detail. I have been working closely with two members of G32 (who will remain unnamed) in developing my thesis, and together we focused my research topic to the following: Research goal: Research novel ways to display cyber related information within a common operating picture framework that...read more

Visualizing cyber data - Introduction and brief overview

Matthew Thompson — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:56:00 GMT

By: Matthew Thompson
Hello, I am CDT Matthew Thompson, and I am entering my second year at the United States Military Academy. This summer, I have the opportunity to spend three weeks at Army Cyber Command as an intern developing a thesis which will hopefully someday benefit the efforts of Army Cyber Command (in at least a small way). I have been so busy so I will have to briefly cover the last week in this post. The purpose of this blog is to track my experience during these next three weeks and to...read more