Network profiling: Content analysis of users behavior in digital communication channel

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on a method of analysis of data in a digital communication channel, using the Digital Profiling technique. We believe, in fact, that the massive use of cloud computing and pervasive technology compels us to improve the results of investigative analysis, in case of cyber-crime, reducing the times of job and maximizing the outcome. The method suggested highlights relationships between flowing data in a digital communication channel and the behavioral models of a possible intruder that threaten that communication. We have chosen to use the two typical approaches adopted in literature: the Top-down to confirm the facts and the Bottom-up to to construct the hypotheses. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.