Advanced Wireless Network Security

Dr. Zafar Iqbal

Assistant Professor

PhD Cyber Security – National University of Science and Technology

Researcher – R&D
Team Lead – Cyber Security Lab MCS, NUST
Visiting Faculty – MCS, NUST
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 Advanced Cyber Attacks

Advanced Employ zero day malwares, multiphase

Cyber Threat Intelligence is a new paradigm for APTs management.

Persistent Targeted attacks

What is Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)?

Stealthy Remains undetected

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o The ability to learn from experience.

o The ability to understand causes of things and accordingly solve the problem.

Intelligence ?

o The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.

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Daily Life Analogy

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 November 21, 2019

https://www.arabnews.pk/node/1587556/pakistan
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The Art of War . . .

Knowing himself? Knowing enemy?

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Knowing himself. . .
Perimeter Router
Device Hardening

Intranet Router Web Server HIPS

Device Hardening FW DMZ FW

FW
Core Switch

Access Switch IPS

FW/IPS Network DLP

AV Device Hardening
DLP Switch
AV
DLP SIEM/SOC
(Security
AV HIPS Management)
HIPS HIPS Application Server
DLP DB Server
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Workstations DB Security FileDLP
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Knowing Enemy . . .

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2019 - Pegasus for Android: the other side of the story emerges (lookout.com)
2020 Lookout, Inc. is a US-based company

2016
2017

lookout-pegasus-technical-analysis.pdf
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What
Cyber are all
Threat these?
Intelligence

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What
Cyber are all
Threat these?
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What is CTI?

Cyber threat intelligence is the end result of cyber threat analysis.

It is a collection of finding

that can be used to take action and defend against threats.

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Name
Belongs From
FYP

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Block Diagram of Digital Communication

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Mobile Adhoc Networks

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Drone
Swarm

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Autonomous Vehicles

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Communcation

Main purpose of communication is to transfer information from a

source to a Destination via a medium.

Basic block diagram of a communication system:

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 Types of Commnication System

• Public Switched Telephone Network

• Satellite systems
• Radio,
• TV broadcasting
• Cellular phones
• Computer networks (LANs, WANs,
WLANs)
• Radars/EW (ECM, ECCM)

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Types of Commnication System

Signals can be analog or digital.

Analog signals can have an infinite number of values in

a range.

Digital signals can have only a limited number of

values.

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Digital Signals

• One with two signal levels

• Other with four signal levels

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Types of Communication

• Analog systems convert analog message into signals that can propagate
through the channel.

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 Types of Communication

• Digital systems convert bits(digits, symbols) into signals

• Computers naturally generate information as characters/bits

• Most information can be converted into bits

• Analog signals converted to bits by sampling and quantizing (A/D conversion)

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Why Digital?

• Good processing techniques are available for digital signals, such as:

• Data compression (or source coding)

• Error Correction (or channel coding)

• Equalization

• Security

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Block Diagram of Digital Communication

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Computer Networks – How Information flows from
Source to Destination

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OSI Model

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OSI Model

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TCP/ IP
Stack

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TCP/ IP Stack

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TCP/ IP Stack Adresses

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Encapsulation

Application data GET / HTML/1.1

Source Port | Destination Port Payload

TCP Segment > 1024 | 80

IP Packet
Source IP | Destination IP Payload
202.125.157.150 | 79.140.80.57
MAC Frame

Source MAC address | Destination MAC address Payload FCS

23:34:aa:bb:cc:dd | 12:34:aa:bb:cc:dd

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TCP/ IP Stack – End to End Communication

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TCP/ IP Stack – End to End Communication

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Formatting/ Source Coding

Transforms source info into digital symbols (digitization)

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Modulation/ Demodulation

Demodulation reverses
Modulation is the process
the process of
of modifying the info
modulation. It involves
signal to facilitate
the detection and
transmission
retrieval of the info signal

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Modulation/ Demodulation

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Modulation/ Demodulation

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Channel Coding

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Multiplexing

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Multiple Access

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Radio Spectrum

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Radio Spectrum Monitoring

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Cellular Frequency Assignment

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 Radio Spectrum Monitoring

Pakistan Table of Frequency Allocations (pta.gov.pk)

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General Course Info

Course Code: SY 625

Course Title: Advanced Wireless Network Security

Credit: 3

Pre-requisite: None

Class timing: 4:40 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Friday)

GCR Code : jhfwc4k

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Reference Books

• Wireless and Mobile Network Security by Hakima Chaouchi and Maryline Laurent-
Maknavicius,

• Stallings W. (2017). Cryptography and Network Security, Principles and Practices, 7th
Edition, Pearson Education.

• Digital Communication By Sklar

• Online Material

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 Policies

• Attendance Policy: Attendance in all lectures is mandatory.

• Class participation is highly encouraged.

• Plagiarism: Turintin will be used for submitted assignments. So be careful.

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 Marks Distribution

• Quizzes 5%

• Assignments 10%

• Class Participation 5%

• Project/ Case Study 10%

• Mid Term 25%

• Final Term 45%

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Research Article and Marks Distribution

Task Week Weightage

• Topic title with motivation (1 page) 3 5%
• Literature Review (15 Papers – 2 pages) 6 20%
• Proposed Solution (Flow Diagram ) 8 15%
• Implementation/ Framework (Pseudo code ) 10 25%
• Evaluation (Comparison with other solutions) 12 20%
• Conclusion and Future work 12 5%
• Latex + Visio 12 5%
• Presentation 13 5%

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Thank you !