scholarly journals Acceleration of Intrusion Detection in Encrypted Network Traffic Using Heterogeneous Hardware

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1140
Author(s):  
Eva Papadogiannaki ◽  
Sotiris Ioannidis

More than 75% of Internet traffic is now encrypted, and this percentage is constantly increasing. The majority of communications are secured using common encryption protocols such as SSL/TLS and IPsec to ensure security and protect the privacy of Internet users. However, encryption can be exploited to hide malicious activities, camouflaged into normal network traffic. Traditionally, network traffic inspection is based on techniques like deep packet inspection (DPI). Common applications for DPI include but are not limited to firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, L7 filtering, and packet forwarding. With the widespread adoption of network encryption though, DPI tools that rely on packet payload content are becoming less effective, demanding the development of more sophisticated techniques in order to adapt to current network encryption trends. In this work, we present HeaderHunter, a fast signature-based intrusion detection system even for encrypted network traffic. We generate signatures using only network packet metadata extracted from packet headers. In addition, we examine the processing acceleration of the intrusion detection engine using different heterogeneous hardware architectures.

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Tamara Radivilova ◽  
Lyudmyla Kirichenko ◽  
Maksym Tawalbeh ◽  
Petro Zinchenko ◽  
Vitalii Bulakh

The problem of load balancing in intrusion detection systems is considered in this paper. The analysis of existing problems of load balancing and modern methods of their solution are carried out. Types of intrusion detection systems and their description are given. A description of the intrusion detection system, its location, and the functioning of its elements in the computer system are provided. Comparative analysis of load balancing methods based on packet inspection and service time calculation is performed. An analysis of the causes of load imbalance in the intrusion detection system elements and the effects of load imbalance is also presented. A model of a network intrusion detection system based on packet signature analysis is presented. This paper describes the multifractal properties of traffic. Based on the analysis of intrusion detection systems, multifractal traffic properties and load balancing problem, the method of balancing is proposed, which is based on the funcsioning of the intrusion detection system elements and analysis of multifractal properties of incoming traffic. The proposed method takes into account the time of deep packet inspection required to compare a packet with signatures, which is calculated based on the calculation of the information flow multifractality degree. Load balancing rules are generated by the estimated average time of deep packet inspection and traffic multifractal parameters. This paper presents the simulation results of the proposed load balancing method compared to the standard method. It is shown that the load balancing method proposed in this paper provides for a uniform load distribution at the intrusion detection system elements. This allows for high speed and accuracy of intrusion detection with high-quality multifractal load balancing.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Gervais Hatungimana

 Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) uses known baseline to detect patterns which have deviated from normal behavior. If the baseline is faulty, the IDS performance degrades. Most of researches in IDS which use k-centroids-based clustering methods like K-means, K-medoids, Fuzzy, Hierarchical and agglomerative algorithms to baseline network traffic suffer from high false positive rate compared to signature-based IDS, simply because the nature of these algorithms risk to force some network traffic into wrong profiles depending on K number of clusters needed. In this paper we propose alternate method which instead of defining K number of clusters, defines t distance threshold. The unrecognizable IDS; IDS which is neither HIDS nor NIDS is the consequence of using statistical methods for features selection. The speed, memory and accuracy of IDS are affected by inappropriate features reduction method or ignorance of irrelevant features. In this paper we use two-step features selection and Quality Threshold with Optimization methods to design anomaly-based HIDS and NIDS separately. The performance of our system is 0% ,99.9974%, 1,1 false positive rates, accuracy , precision and recall respectively for NIDS and  0%,99.61%, 0.991,0.978 false positive rates, accuracy, precision and recall respectively for HIDS.


Author(s):  
Theodorus Kristian Widianto ◽  
Wiwin Sulistyo

Security on computer networks is currently a matter that must be considered especially for internet users because many risks must be borne if this is negligent of attention. Data theft, system destruction, and so on are threats to users, especially on the server-side. DDoS is a method of attack that is quite popular and is often used to bring down servers. This method runs by consuming resources on the server computer so that it can no longer serve requests from the user side. With this problem, security is needed to prevent the DDoS attack, one of which is using iptables that has been provided by Linux. Implementing iptables can prevent or stop external DDoS attacks aimed at the server.


Author(s):  
Karan Shingare ◽  
Rohit Nandurkar ◽  
Prashant Shrivastav ◽  
Shailesh Bendale

As the world is moving toward newer technologies and to meet the requirements of the same adapting toward different network topology. SDN is such example of a network which solves many issues or limitations of a traditional TCP/IP network. As majority of workspace is moving towards SDN, many new vulnerabilities are also emerging, and to protect the network and systems on these networks, in this paper we discuss and propose a dataset which would be helpful in training an intrusion detection system over SDN which would also include the intrusion dataset for traditional TCP/IP network too. We generate this data over SDN topology by attacking the host system present in the network, then analyse the generated data using CICFlowmeter which would give us the desired dataset for intrusion detection.


2020 ◽  
pp. 808-817
Author(s):  
Vinh Pham ◽  
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Eunil Seo ◽  
Tai-Myoung Chung

Identifying threats contained within encrypted network traffic poses a great challenge to Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Because traditional approaches like deep packet inspection could not operate on encrypted network traffic, machine learning-based IDS is a promising solution. However, machine learning-based IDS requires enormous amounts of statistical data based on network traffic flow as input data and also demands high computing power for processing, but is slow in detecting intrusions. We propose a lightweight IDS that transforms raw network traffic into representation images. We begin by inspecting the characteristics of malicious network traffic of the CSE-CIC-IDS2018 dataset. We then adapt methods for effectively representing those characteristics into image data. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based detection model is used to identify malicious traffic underlying within image data. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed lightweight IDS, we conduct three simulations on two datasets that contain encrypted traffic with current network attack scenarios. The experiment results show that our proposed IDS is capable of achieving 95% accuracy with a reasonable detection time while requiring relatively small size training data.


Author(s):  
S. A. Sakulin ◽  
A. N. Alfimtsev ◽  
K. N. Kvitchenko ◽  
L. Ya. Dobkach ◽  
Yu. A. Kalgin

Network technologies have been steadily developing and their application has been expanding. One of the aspects of the development is a modification of the current network attacks and the appearance of new ones. The anomalies that can be detected in network traffic conform with such attacks. Development of new and improvement of the current approaches to detect anomalies in network traffic have become an urgent task. The article suggests a hybrid approach to detect anomalies on the basis of the combined signature approach and computationally effective classifiers of machine learning: logistic regression, stochastic gradient descent and decision tree with accuracy increase due to weighted voting. The choice of the classifiers is explained by the admissible complexity of the algorithms that allows detection of network traffic events for the time close to real. Signature analysis is carried out with the help of the Zeek IDS (Intrusion Detection System) signature base. Learning is fulfilled by preliminary prepared (by excluding extra recordings and parameters) CICIDS2017 (Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity Intrusion Detection System) signature set by cross validation. The set is roughly divided into ten parts that allows us to increase the accuracy. Experimental evaluation of the developed approach comparing with individual classifiers and with other approaches by such criteria as part of type I and II errors, accuracy and level of detection, has proved the approach suitable to be applied in network attacks detection systems. It is possible to introduce the developed approach into both existing and new anomaly detection systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 4668-4671

A Distributed denial of Service attacks(DDoS) is one of the major threats in the cyber network and it attacks the computers flooded with the Users Data Gram packet. These types of attacks causes major problem in the network in the form of crashing the system with large volume of traffic to attack the victim and make the victim idle in which not responding the requests. To detect this DDOS attack traditional intrusion detection system is not suitable to handle huge volume of data. Hadoop is a frame work which handles huge volume of data and is used to process the data to find any malicious activity in the data. In this research paper anomaly detection technique is implemented in Map Reduce Algorithm which detects the unusual pattern of data in the network traffic. To design a proposed model, Map Reduce platform is used to hold the improvised algorithm which detects the (DDoS) attacks by filtering and sorting the network traffic and detects the unusual pattern from the network. Improvised Map reduce algorithm is implemented with Map Reduce functionalities at the stage of verifying the network IPS. This Proposed algorithm focuses on the UDP flooding attack using Anomaly based Intrusion detection system technique which detects kind of pattern and flow of packets in the node is more than the threshold and also identifies the source code causing UDP Flood Attack.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Subhi A. Mohammed

Abstract- Network attacks are classified according to their objective into three types: Denial of Services (DOS), reconnaissance and unauthorized access. A base signature Intrusion Detection System (IDS) which gives an alarm when the monitor network traffic meets a previously specified set of criteria of attack traffic. This paper will focus on design, compose, and process IDS rules, and then to decide whether that packet is intrusive or not, by examining the signatures of the attacks in both incoming packets headers and payload to networks. Packet sniffer is performs capturing, decoding and reassembling of the network packet traffic, then passes it to the programmed rules. Linux backtrack tools was used to implement an IDS scenario for two types of attacks (Reconnaissance and Unauthorized access). The results show that IDS rules are able to detect large numbers of various attacks.


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