Automation & Orchestration for Improved Security Communication

Speed is incredibly important when addressing issues with computer security. The longer the time between the attack’s start and resolution, the more assets that attackers can steal from a company. There are various security platforms that can alert a company to a cyber-attack. This research project aims to combine knowledge from all these platforms together […]

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Anomalous DNS Query Detection Using Machine Learning Approaches

For organizations that use the Internet, their employees will visit thousands of websites every day. However, there is a chance that the destination website is not safe to visit. Such websites may be fraudulent, phishing, or even data-stealing related. On the other hand, determining if the target website link is suspicious or not could help […]

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Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration with MISP Threat Sharing

In the recent technological age, new threats and attacks emerge nearly every day. It might be against everyone on the internet or targeted towards specific organizations and individuals. Attackers have begun to use highly sophisticated techniques and technologies to attain their objectives. It’s a high time, the defenders scale up to defending their infrastructure against […]

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Automated AI-Based Phishing Solution

Phishing emails are a common form of a cyber attack. Attackers use leading content to fraud victims, such as fake banking information, forged Google Alert messages, and so on. Phishing attacks have been around for years, causing countless serious consequences, such as financial losses and confidential documents leaks. As of now, there is still no […]

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Detection of malicious documents by extracting and interpreting macros in Microsoft Office files

Macros can greatly enhance the capabilities and convenience provided in documents. They also invite adversaries to include malicious code in lure documents, often used as initial access into a user’s environment. This project will extract and analyze macros and determine their indent and potential for malicious code execution. Reducing time to response through malicious code […]

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Real-time Automated Security Report Generation

In today’s world, organizations protect themselves and their customer’s data through the implementation of complex cybersecurity solutions composed of many different nodes, each generating constant streams of data. Building reports from this data through the calculation of various metrics can provide much needed visibility into the state of the environment. However, building such reports can […]

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Malicious/phishing Website Detection

Malicious websites in general, and phishing websites in particular, attempt to mimic legitimate websites to trick users into trusting them. The goal of the project is to develop algorithms for detecting these malicious websites in two contexts: • detecting if a site visited by a user is a malicious site • detecting malicious sites that […]

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Creating a comparison and alert methodology for managing the CCTX feed

Most collaborations and government departments share their threat data feed in Data Exchange. Inescapably, nowadays with increasing threat data, it is a challenge to extract a large amount of threat data and unify the format more quickly. And as more and more companies join in sharing, the redundancy of this duplicate data will increase dramatically. […]

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Characterizing anti-inflammatory properties of medicinal mushrooms

Medicinal mushrooms possess compounds with beneficial properties, including anti-microbial, anti-tumoral, and anti-inflammatory, which support their role and application in current healthcare practices. In this proposal, we will measure the impact and role of extracts from medicinal mushrooms provided by Wake Network Inc. to identify how immune cells and an animal model change their response to […]

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Determining Canadian Healthcare Providers’ Intentions to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine and Improving Current Health Communication Strategies

Some healthcare providers have concerns, misconceptions, and reluctance to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, which puts them at risk of occupational and public exposure to the virus. This is called vaccine hesitancy, which is defined as the delay or refusal of vaccines in the presence of vaccination services. Widespread vaccination is an effective public health measure […]

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Semi-Supervised Learning for NLP Text Classification

Insurance companies collect huge volumes of text on a daily basis and through multiple channels, which can be used for lots of different analyses, including identifying “cause of death”. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of an insurance company’s need to understand the facts and circumstances surrounding an insured individual’s death. These facts, including […]

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