MS, University of Cincinnati, 2021, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Information Technology

The prevalence of cyberattacks on the home network today sparked great concern among researchers. With the advent of telecommuting and stay-at-home orders, cyber attackers have found network intrusion easier than usual as SOHO networks are generally incapable of rescinding the advanced intrusion techniques developed today. Therefore, there are more sensitive data online today than usual. Firewall configurations, Antivirus scans, and secure locks have all been studied and found to be ineffective in combating these advanced techniques. The researcher examines the design of a more advanced system of detecting and understanding attacks on home networks to solve this issue. The researcher takes an experimentation approach at combining the functionalities of Elasticsearch SIEM and Snort IDS to reinforce a secure SOHO network. A virtual simulation of real-life cyber-attack scenarios was carried out. The researcher found that the design was more effective in reporting attacks than the most alternative. The tools allowed the researcher to analyze the detected attacks, visualize them, and correlate them with open-source rules that take further actions against detected intrusions. Although this design requires more than a basic understanding of setting up, the researcher believes that the quality of its effectiveness may spur further research on how SIEM configuration may be made more accessible and straightforward to use to SOHO administrators.

Committee: M. Murat Ozer Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Ryan Moore (Committee Member) Subjects: Information Technology

MARCH, University of Cincinnati, 2014, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture

Due to the natural borders that limit the expansion of Manhattan,an estimated ten percent increase in New York City population over the next twenty years will constrict the island's developable land and threaten low-population/under-developed areas, which include a portion of the fifty-two protected historic districts. The South of Houston neighborhood (SoHo) and its stock of cast iron structures, some almost 150 years old, falls into both of these categories. The Cast Iron District marks influential transitions from traditional masonry into modern steel construction and from the process of manufacturing individual parts to the mass production of multi-purpose (structural, weather barrier, decorative) modular building components. Plans for population expansion are already partially laid out, compiled in the city-released document “PlaNYC” but do not include specifics about historic districts. Historic preservation has become a method of protecting important buildings from demolition but creates limitations for their adaptation. The alteration of historic buildings is subject to stringent regulation, especially the exterior, limiting the amount of change that can occur. Increasing population will force either the complete redevelopment of underdeveloped land or adaptation to the new context of the city. Attempting to work within an ever-changing built world, groups of architects, most notably, the Japanese Metabolists of the 1960's began to explore what future cities would look like. They conceptualized premanufactured blocks inserted within a framework where an entire building or parts of buildings could be added or removed with demand. The Metabolists tapped into an idea that could be applied not just to whole cities and megastructures of the future but also to the existing fabric of cities through interpreting a building as framework, a historic buildingholds the potential of adapting with the surrounding city. SoHo, with its history based in multifunctional, (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Aarati Kanekar Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Michael McInturf M.Arch. (Committee Member) Subjects: Architecture

MARCH, University of Cincinnati, 2012, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture

Due to the natural borders that limit the expansion of Manhattan,an estimated ten percent increase in New York City population over the next twenty years will constrict the island's developable land and threaten low-population/under-developed areas, which include a portion of the fifty-two protected historic districts. The South of Houston neighborhood (SoHo) and its stock of cast iron structures, some almost 150 years old, falls into both of these categories. The Cast Iron District marks influential transitions from traditional masonry into modern steel construction and from the process of manufacturing individual parts to the mass production of multi-purpose (structural, weather barrier, decorative) modular building components. Plans for population expansion are already partially laid out, compiled in the city-released document “PlaNYC” but do not include specifics about historic districts. Historic preservation has become a method of protecting important buildings from demolition but creates limitations for their adaptation. The alteration of historic buildings is subject to stringent regulation, especially the exterior, limiting the amount of change that can occur. Increasing population will force either the complete redevelopment of underdeveloped land or adaptation to the new context of the city. Attempting to work within an ever-changing built world, groups of architects, most notably, the Japanese Metabolists of the 1960's began to explore what future cities would look like. They conceptualized premanufactured blocks inserted within a framework where an entire building or parts of buildings could be added or removed with demand. The Metabolists tapped into an idea that could be applied not just to whole cities and megastructures of the future but also to the existing fabric of cities through interpreting a building as framework, a historic buildingholds the potential of adapting with the surrounding city. SoHo, with it's history based in multifunctional, p (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Aarati Kanekar PhD (Committee Chair); Michael McInturf MARCH (Committee Member) Subjects: Architecture