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Colleen was a staff researcher at CAIDA until 2008. She leads the workload
characterization group within CAIDA; her research interests focus
particularly on examining network security. Among her accomplishments, she demonstrated
the limited utility of IP addresses in assessing the prevalence of
hosts infected by an Internet worm. Colleen also assessed the viability
of using current technology to automatically block the propagation of
Internet worms.
Contact Information
| Name: | Colleen Shannon |
| Email: | cshannon @ caida.org |
Background
Colleen joined CAIDA in March of 2000. She pioneered a method of localtime analysis of host behavior that helps to identify the function of machines infected with an Internet worm. Colleen recently completed a study of the prevalence and characteristics of IP packet fragmentation, the results of which were published in IEEE Transactions on Networking in December 2002.