Monday, July 1, 2024

Nice, chill day today. Finished reading all of the prerequisite content and made a decent start on brainstorming specific avenues for log analysis. Waiting on Sameer for log access, so can’t start any practical efforts until then.

Progress:

• Finished IUB paper + notes
• Emailed Sameer with thoughts on 2FA usability papers
• Investigated tooling for data analysis
• Brainstormed questions to answer

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Sameer forgot to give access to logs again, so mostly a brainstorming day.

Progress:

• Find resources for data analysis
  • Textbook
  • Libraries/tooling
• Create slides for lab meeting

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Finally got access to log data! Nice productive, exploratory day today.

Progress:

• Explore log data
• Install python tools
  • Miniconda package manager/installer
    • Configured environment for DREU log analysis
  • Pandas library
    • Read thru docs
      • DataFrames
  • CSV and datetime libs

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Happy 4th! :D

Friday, July 5, 2024

More work on the logs today :)

Progress:

• Experiment with new tools
  • Pandas
• Model data (to answer user-specific questions)
• Light data processing
  • Extract field information
  • Parse timestamps

Week 7 Summary

Nice week! I feel like I’m finally getting into the swing of things. Hopefully I can actually distill some useful insight from these logs next week!