An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation

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
Other Authors: Kovacs, Tim
Format: Book Section
Published: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour 2006
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/995/
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author Tedesco, Gianni
Aickelin, Uwe
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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-9952020-05-04T20:30:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/995/ An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation 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. Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Kovacs, Tim Marshall, James A.R. 2006 Book Section PeerReviewed Tedesco, Gianni and Aickelin, Uwe (2006) An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation. In: AISB '06: adaptation in artificial and biological systems. Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, Bristol, pp. 16-17. ISBN 1902956975 http://www.aisb.org.uk/publications/proceedings/aisb06/AISB06_vol1.pdf
spellingShingle Tedesco, Gianni
Aickelin, Uwe
An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation
title An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation
title_full An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation
title_fullStr An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation
title_full_unstemmed An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation
title_short An immune inspired Network Intrusion Detection System utilising correlation
title_sort immune inspired network intrusion detection system utilising correlation
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/995/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/995/