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Active Profiling of Physical Devices at Internet Scale


Abstract:

Nowadays, more and more physical devices embed computing and networking capabilities and are visible on the Internet. These devices include webcams, net-printers, and ind...Show More

Abstract:

Nowadays, more and more physical devices embed computing and networking capabilities and are visible on the Internet. These devices include webcams, net-printers, and industrial control equipments, etc. Collecting information about these devices is crucial to preserve cyber-security and facilitate security auditing for system administrators. In this paper, we propose a scalable framework for physical device profiling. It leverages banner grabbing to identify device types and running services, and uses clock skew to determine a device ID. Our framework scales well. We implement a prototype system and use it to profile Webcams and industrial control device. The results show that our system can effectively profile and identify Webcams in real time. We deploy it on the cloud server and use it to detect 4 billion IP addresses to profile 1.2 million Webcams and more than 60 thousand industrial control devices in 20 hours.
Date of Conference: 01-04 August 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 15 September 2016
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Conference Location: Waikoloa, HI, USA

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