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Well, I have finally submitted my SAICSIT paper. It was a very long process, which nearly killed me. On Friday at 11am we decided to change track entirely and with the deadline on Monday at 2pm.

Its now completed under its new title, “Towards a Taxonomy of Network Scanning Techniques”

Abstract:

Network scanning is a common reconnaissance activity in network intrusion. Despite this, it’s classifcation remains vague and detection systems in current Network Intrusion Detection Systems are incapable of detecting many forms of scanning traffic.

This paper presents a classifcation of network scanning and illustrates how complex and varied this activity is. The presented classifcation extends previous, well known, definitions of scanning traffic in a manner which refects this complexity.