Chibueze Ogbonna’s research while affiliated with Babcock University and other places

As network continue to grow it is increasingly important that network administrators are aware of the different types of traffic that is traversing their networks as well as provides sufficient means for decision making process. Traffic monitoring and analysis is essential in order to more effectively troubleshoot and resolve issues when they occur, so as not to bring network services to a stand still for extended periods of time. Numerous tools are available to help administrators with the monitoring and analysis of network traffic. This paper present a comparative analysis of five existing packet sniffers vis-à-vis their performance.

Cyber security is generally an extension of the traditional information technology (IT) security that is aimed at protecting systems, applications and data that exposed to a variety of forms of attack via the internet, ranging from data theft and espionage to corruption of data and denial of service attacks. There is a need for an increase in cyber security research due to losses from sabotage being experienced by nations, businesses and individuals from various cybercrime attacks. This paper takes a look at the applications digital watermarking to the process of protection in cyber space called cyber watermarking particularly focusing on theft of information (identity & credit card theft).The methodology of the research is through literature search and case study. The rest of the paper presents a brief overview of the digital watermarking and issues in cyber security.