Cybersecurity Research

Cybersecurity Virtual Identities

• Behavioral biometrics - Looking into stylometric features, writeprints
• Used PCA to do analysis

Contributions

• Brings a process for analyzing the messaging behavioral biometrics
• Taxonomy for writeprints
• Create writeprints that show separation between authors

Assumptions

• The data contains text from each author and only that author
• The messages weren’t being purposely mimiced or manipulated

Framework

Datasets

• Known authors - 19 authors, but a bigger message range
• US Cyberwatch - 105 authors, but a lower message range