Masters thesis [topic needed]

rom

I am currently doing an infosec masters and can't seem to find a topic that is both interesting and meaty enough for research. Any feedback appreciated.

BaconZombie

Topics to avoid :

APT, Cloud, Cyber, BDMS, Big Data, PCI, SOX, SQLi, ......

rom wrote: »

I am currently doing an infosec masters and can't seem to find a topic that is both interesting and meaty enough for research. Any feedback appreciated.

LoLth

isnt M2M "the internet of things" the latest buzzword?

Screaming Monkey

Some topics
*Honeypots, build a web, ssh or network based one, grab data, write report
*Visualisation, get data from security devices or logs. make fancy 3d graphs
*Mobile, Android phone vulnerabilities or review some banking grabber malware app
*NFC (Near field communication), sniffing and hacking the data on them
*Raspberry PI, build a password cracking cluster or wifi sniffer.

BaconZombie

I have to admit M2M is hot!!!

LoLth wrote: »

isnt M2M "the internet of things" the latest buzzword?

le_dazzler

rom wrote: »

I am currently doing an infosec masters and can't seem to find a topic that is both interesting and meaty enough for research. Any feedback appreciated.

Security Defined Networking is [zoolander] so hot right now [\zoolander], but the security implications of SDN (both good and bad) haven't really been explored in much depth.

kaisersoze

Data hiding! Great topic, plenty of scope.

fcerullo

Application Security is quite popular at the moment...have a look at www.owasp.org

There are plenty of projects you could work on as a basis for your thesis.. drop me a line if interested.