Isaac's Reflections - absentee-neptune/Senior-Capstone GitHub Wiki

Week 1 - Sprint 1 Kickoff

Over the course of this week, I began working on the research into vulnerabilities regarding the platform of Zoom. The platform is notorious for having multiple issues throughout its recent popularity. This puts us on track to help deliver the information that we need to help continue working on our project over the coming weeks.

Week 2 - Sprint 1 Week 1

Over the course of this week, much was accomplished. We finally labelled all of the networking equipment and the locations the pertain to around the apartment, including the individual wires going to each computer. Additionally, there was more information put into the research of Zoom Vulnerabilities, leading to the discovery of many catastrophic findings including remote desktop access. Furthermore, the helpdesk ticket system was set-up utilizing google forms and their email distribution system.

Week 3 - Sprint 1 Week 2

Over the course of this week, more research was done into the vulnerabilities surrounding the zoom meeting platform. This information, though nothing unknown to the public previously gives a good idea of what vulnerabilities to look for in the coming sprints. The researched vulnerabilities include, another means for remote desktop, control of camera, control of microphone, network speed bottlenecking and gaining control over meeting environments without proper permissions.

Week 4 - Sprint 1 week 3

Over the course of this week, I began to research the vulnerabilities on common home routers and the default settings associated with those routers. The information was rather different and the common vulnerabilities are rather easy to execute. This was a very different field of vulnerability research, but works in tandem with the research I worked on the previous weeks. Additionally, we contacted the telecom company that was in charge of our router and need to assess different ways to achieve the log forwarding.

Week 5 - Sprint 2 week 1

Over the course of this week I did research into more vulnerabilities for Zoom and home routers. Time was also spent taking a look at routers for the extension on our wifi network to allow us to gather logs. The information for this allows us to forward the logs on the network that normally can't be retrieved by any other means.

Week 6 - Sprint 2 week 2

Over the course of this week we deduced a new router was needed to facilitate our project. We procured a small GL.Net open source router with the capability of forwarding the logs to an external system. The week has mainly been consumed by research into our new router and the reconstruction of the Syslog environment on AWS.

Week 7 - Sprint 2 week 3

Over the course of this week, our team worked on the integration of our new Gl.Inet router into our system. This allows us to look at the logs of our network traffic on the network without the need for an overly complicated setup. Additionally, we began researching the integration of the platforms necessary to analyze the traffic.

Week 8 - Sprint 2 week 4

Over the course of this week, our team began generating the logs for our network. We began to look at the network traffic that was being produced and began dividing that up by the software that the packets were used by. This allows us to single out programs for the future.

Week 9 - Sprint 3 week 1

Over the course of this week, our team worked on the installation of the solarwinds orion software to crosscheck our progress and work toward ensuring our project is working as intended. We have continued to analyze network traffic and have continued our research on vulnerabilities and network information collection.

Week 10 - Sprint 3 week 2

Over the course of this week, our team has continued the installation of Solarwinds, finally installing it and being able to analyze the traffic in our network with another source. This is allowing us to monitor the traffic, divide it by software and look at the data in real time. This increases our productivity in terms of looking at the information with our other system verifying the logs and helping to ensure the accuracy of our information.

Week 11 - Sprint 3 week 3

Over the course of this week, our team has been looking at network traffic, focusing out npm on solarwinds to focus on the 3 softwares defined in out capstone. This cuts out our other network traffic to prevent bottlenecking in our network while still allowing us to monitor the pertinent information.

Week 12 - Sprint 3 week 4

Over the course of this week, the team analyzed more network traffic and looked at potential vulnerabilities inside of the network. This had some issues as the information was needing to be narrowed down for the proper information to be analyzed. This lead our team to look at the options in narrowing the information down using methods of the platforms we were using

Week 13 - Sprint 4 week 1

Over the course of this week, our team began looking at the information relating to our capstone and decided to begin narrowing the focus. This lead us to focus more on the home network aspect of the capstone as we had created more progress in that aspect. This minimized out methods of analysis for the virtual meeting platforms.

Week 14 - Sprint 4 week 2

Began focusing more on the information of the Beryl router purchased for the project, honing in on that as more of the major points for the capstone's end. Additionally, increased focus into the solarwinds forwarding and method that can be used in a home environment to secure the information for the user.

Week 15 - Sprint 4 week 3

Continued to work on focusing the information to a point. Our lack of single direction has made it difficult to properly reign in the project to be completely conherent.