Rafael Copstein

Computer Science Ph.D. student at Dalhousie University under the supervision of Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood. Member of the NIMS lab. Instructor. Digital entrepreneur. Minimalist.

Software

Mosaic - Workspace Manager
A window manager for macOS like you've never seen before

Publications

2023
MIMC: Anomaly Detection in Network Data via Multiple Instances of Micro-Cluster Detection
19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)
Rafael Copstein, Bradley Nibblet, Andrew Johnston, Jeff Schwartzentruber, Malcolm Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood
@inproceedings{copstein2023anomalyDetection, author={Copstein, Rafael and Niblett, Bradley and Johnston, Andrew and Schwartzentruber, Jeff and Heywood, Malcolm and Zincir-Heywood, Nur}, booktitle={2023 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)}, title={MIMC: Anomaly Detection in Network Data via Multiple Instances of Micro-Cluster Detection}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-7}, doi={10.23919/CNSM59352.2023.10327864}}
2023
Towards Anomaly Detection using Multiple Instances of Micro Cluster Detection
7th Cyber Security in Networking Conference
Rafael Copstein, Bradley Nibblet, Andrew Johnston, Jeff Schwartzentruber, Malcolm Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood
@inproceedings{copstein2023towardsAnomaly, author = {Rafael Copstein and Bradley Nibblet and Andrew Johnston and Jeff Schwartzentruber and Malcolm Heywood and Nur Zincir-Heywood}, title = {Towards Anomaly Detection using Multiple Instances of Micro Cluster Detection}, year = {2023}, publisher = {IEEE} }
2022
Exploring Syntactical Features for Anomaly Detection in Application Logs
it - Information Technology
Rafael Copstein, Egil Karlsen, Jeff Schwartzentruber, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm Heywood
@article{copstein2022syntacticalFeatures, author = {Rafael Copstein and Egil Karlsen and Jeff Schwartzentruber and Nur Zincir-Heywood and Malcolm Heywood}, doi = {doi:10.1515/itit-2021-0064}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2021-0064}, title = {Exploring syntactical features for anomaly detection in application logs}, journal = {it - Information Technology}, number = {1-2}, volume = {64}, year = {2022}, pages = {15--27} }
2021
Log Abstraction for Information Security: Heuristics and Reproducibility
16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)
Rafael Copstein, Jeff Schwartzentruber, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm Heywood
@inproceedings{copstein2021logAbstraction, author = {Copstein, Rafael and Schwartzentruber, Jeff and Zincir-Heywood, Nur and Heywood, Malcolm}, title = {Log Abstraction for Information Security: Heuristics and Reproducibility}, year = {2021}, isbn = {9781450390514}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3465481.3470083}, doi = {10.1145/3465481.3470083}, abstract = { The collection of log messages regarding the operation of deployed services and application is an integral component to the forensic analysis for the identification and understanding of security incidents. Approaches for parsing and abstraction of such logs, despite widespread use and study, do not directly account for the individualities of the domain of information security. This, in return, limits their applicability on the field. In this work, we analyze the state-of-the-art log parsing and abstraction algorithms from the perspective of information security. First, we reproduce/replicate previous analysis of such algorithms from the literature. Then, we evaluate their ability for parsing and abstraction of log files for forensic analysis purposes. Our study demonstrates that while the state-of-the-art techniques are accurate in log parsing, improvements are necessary in terms of achieving a holistic view to aid in forensic analysis for the identification and understanding of security incidents. }, booktitle = {The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security}, articleno = {93}, numpages = {10}, keywords = {application logs, system logs, log abstraction and parsing, information security}, location = {Vienna, Austria}, series = {ARES 2021} }
2020
Temporal Representations for Detecting BGP Blackjack Attacks
16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)
Rafael Copstein, Nur Zincir-Heywood
@INPROCEEDINGS{copstein2020temporal, author={Copstein, Rafael and Zincir-Heywood, Nur}, booktitle={2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)}, title={Temporal Representations for Detecting BGP Blackjack Attacks}, year={2020}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-7}, doi={10.23919/CNSM50824.2020.9269055} }
2020
Distributed File System for an Edge-Based Environment
arXiv
Rafael Copstein, Fernando Dotti
@misc{copstein2020distributed, title={Distributed File System for an Edge-Based Environment}, author={R. Copstein and F. Dotti}, year={2020}, eprint={2006.09182}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.DC} }
2019
DirectFlow: A Robust Method for Ocular Torsion Measurement
IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
Bruno Kozen Stahl, Leonardo Pavanatto Soares, Vicenzo Abichequer Sangalli, Pedro Costa Klein, Rafael Neujahr Copstein, Márcio Sarroglia Pinho
@INPROCEEDINGS{stahl2019directflow, author={Kozen Stahl, Bruno and Pavanatto Soares, Leonardo and Abichequer Sangalli, Vicenzo and Costa Klein, Pedro and Neujahr Copstein, Rafael and Sarroglia Pinho, Márcio}, booktitle={2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)}, title={DirectFlow: A Robust Method for Ocular Torsion Measurement}, year={2019}, volume={1}, number={}, pages={300-305}, doi={10.1109/COMPSAC.2019.00052} }
2018
Image Processing Strategies for Automatic Detection of Common Gastroenterological Diseases
IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
Rafael Neujahr Copstein, Vicenzo Abichequer, Matheus Cruz Andrade, Lucas Almeida Machado, Evandro Rodrigues, Leonardo Pavanatto Soares, Marcio Sarroglia Pinho
@INPROCEEDINGS{copstein2018image, author={Neujahr Copstein, Rafael and Abichequer, Vicenzo and Cruz Andrade, Matheus and Almeida Machado, Lucas and Rodrigues, Evandro and Pavanatto Soares, Leonardo and Sarroglia Pinho, Marcio}, booktitle={2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)}, title={Image Processing Strategies for Automatic Detection of Common Gastroenterological Diseases}, year={2018}, volume={01}, number={}, pages={593-598}, doi={10.1109/COMPSAC.2018.00090} }