Thesis (M.Eng.)(Electronic)--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Title from opening screen (viewed March 20, 2006). Summaries in English and Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references.

This research will explorethe feasibility of replacing traditional networked desktop personal computers (PC) with a thin client/server-based computing (TCSBC) architecture. After becoming nearly extinct in the early 1990s, thin clients are emerging on the forefront of technology with numerous bandwidth improvements and cost reduction benefits. The results show that TCSBC could provide a practical and financially sound solution in meeting the Navy's need to reduce costs and propagate the latest technology to all personnel. This solution may not meet the requirements of all naval commands. A thorough performance analysis should be conducted of the applications employed and the overall expenditures prior to implementation. / US Navy (USN) author.

Thesis (Ph. D., Computer Science)--University of Idaho, June 2007. / Major professor: Deborah A. Frincke. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online (PDF file) by subscription or by purchasing the individual file.

Computer Based Training offers many attractive learning opportunities for high school pupils. Its deployment in economically depressed and educationally marginalized rural schools is extremely uncommon due to the high technology skills and costs involved in its deployment and ongoing maintenance. This thesis puts forward thin client technology as a potential solution to the needs of education environments of this kind. A functional business case is developed and evaluated in this thesis, based upon a requirements analysis of media delivery in learning, and upon formal cost/performance models and a deployment field trial. Because of the economic constraints of the envisaged deployment area in rural education, an industrial field trial is used, and the aspects of this trial that can be carried over to the rural school situation have been used to assess performance and cost indicators. Our study finds that thin client technology could be deployed and maintained more cost effectively than conventional fat client solutions in rural schools, that it is capable of supporting the learning elements needed in this deployment area, and that it is able to deliver the predominantly text based applications currently being used in schools. However, we find that technological improvements are needed before future multimediaintensive applications can be adequately supported.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri--Rolla, 2007. / Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed December 6, 2007) Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-63).

Honeypots are computer systems deliberately designed to be attack targets, mainly to learn about cyber-attacks and attacker behavior. When implemented as part of a security posture, honeypots also protect real networks by acting as a decoy, deliberately confusing potential attackers as to the real data. The objective of this research is to compare attack patterns against a honeypot to those against a real network, the network of the Naval Postgraduate School. Collection of suspicious-event data required the implementation and setup of a honeypot, in addition to the installation and use of an intrusion-detection system. A statistical analysis was conducted across suspicious-event data recorded from a honeypot and from a real network. Metrics used in our study were applied to the alerts generated from Snort 2.4.3, an open-source intrusion detection system. Results showed differences between the honeypot and the real network data which need further experiments to understand. Both the honeypot and the real network data showed much variability at the start of the experiment period and then a decrease in the number of alerts in the later period of the experiment. We conclude that after the initial probing and reconnaissance is complete, the vulnerabilities of the network are learned and therefore fewer alerts occur; but more specific signatures are then aimed at exploiting the network.

Thesis (M.E.)--University of Florida, 2001. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 68 p.; also contains graphics. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67).

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58).

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006. / Thesis Advisor(s): Neil C. Rowe. "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58)