User:Syd steck

Week 1: (May 29th 2023 - June 2nd 2023)

Tuesday (5/30)

• REU introduction meeting
• Decided on a topic and started preliminary research

Wednesday (5/31)

• Attended REU meeting on how to conduct research effectively
• Communicated with other professors to determine a good starting point
• Began reading a master's thesis related to the topic and took notes

Thursday (6/1)

• Met with Dr. Kaczmarek via teams to discuss Splunk and possible avenues of research
• Finished reading the thesis from the day prior
• Started Splunk online training

Friday (6/2)

• Continued Splunk online training videos
• Looked for potential research articles and took note of a few different articles of interest
• Read a research article about implementing Splunk Phantom and took notes
  • Link to article: https://0-ieeexplore-ieee-org.libus.csd.mu.edu/document/9698447
  • Entitled "Methods for Automating Threat Hunting and Response"
  • Results of research were not very helpful at all

Week 2: (June 5th 2023 - June 9th 2023)

Monday (6/5)

• Attended the RCR Training meeting

Tuesday (6/6)

• Met with other REU researchers during the collaboration time in the morning
• Created the mini presentation for the research paper I read last Friday
• Listened to other's present their research findings
• Presented mini presentation to the others in my lab group
• Researched Bee-Bots and how they are used in computer science education
  • Began creating the short presentation for this
• Started to read another research paper (that is hopefully more useful than the last)

Wednesday (6/7)

Thursday (6/8)

Friday (6/9)