An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are computer systems which monitor a network with the aim of discerning malicious from benign activity on that network. While a wide range of approaches have met varying levels of success, most IDSs rely on having access to a database of known attack signat...

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Main Authors: Tedesco, Gianni, Aickelin, Uwe
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2006
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/599/
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description Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are computer systems which monitor a network with the aim of discerning malicious from benign activity on that network. While a wide range of approaches have met varying levels of success, most IDSs rely on having access to a database of known attack signatures which are written by security experts. Nowadays, in order to solve problems with false positive alerts, correlation algorithms are used to add additional structure to sequences of IDS alerts. However, such techniques are of no help in discovering novel attacks or variations of known attacks, something the human immune system (HIS) is capable of doing in its own specialised domain. This paper presents a novel immune algorithm for application to the IDS problem. The goal is to discover packets containing novel variations of attacks covered by an existing signature base.
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spelling nottingham-5992020-05-04T20:30:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/599/ An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context Tedesco, Gianni Aickelin, Uwe Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are computer systems which monitor a network with the aim of discerning malicious from benign activity on that network. While a wide range of approaches have met varying levels of success, most IDSs rely on having access to a database of known attack signatures which are written by security experts. Nowadays, in order to solve problems with false positive alerts, correlation algorithms are used to add additional structure to sequences of IDS alerts. However, such techniques are of no help in discovering novel attacks or variations of known attacks, something the human immune system (HIS) is capable of doing in its own specialised domain. This paper presents a novel immune algorithm for application to the IDS problem. The goal is to discover packets containing novel variations of attacks covered by an existing signature base. 2006 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Tedesco, Gianni and Aickelin, Uwe (2006) An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems and Immume System Modelling (AISB 2006), Bristol, UK.
spellingShingle Tedesco, Gianni
Aickelin, Uwe
An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context
title An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context
title_full An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context
title_fullStr An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context
title_full_unstemmed An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context
title_short An Immune Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context
title_sort immune network intrusion detection system utilising correlation context
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/599/