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Covert Channel Detection Using Process Query Systems (White Paper)

September 2005 White Paper
Vincent Berk (Dartmouth College)

In this FloCon 2005 presentation, the author uses traffic analysis to investigate a stealthy form of data exfiltration.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

<p>In this paper, presented at FloCon 2005, the author uses traffic analysis to investigate a stealthy form of data exfiltration. The author presents an approach to detect covert channels based on a Process Query System (PQS), a new type of information retrieval technology in which queries are expressed as process descriptions.