Formal analysis of intrusion detection systems for high speed networks

Mohsen Rouached; Hassen Sallay; Ouissem Ben Fredj; Adel Ammar; Khaled Al-Shalfan; Majdi Ben Saad

Formal analysis of intrusion detection systems for high speed networks

Mohsen Rouached^*, Hassen Sallay, Ouissem Ben Fredj, Adel Ammar, Khaled Al-Shalfan, Majdi Ben Saad

^*Corresponding author for this work

Information Systems

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is an important and practical tool for network security. To guarantee a precise detection, the NIDS must detect packets at a wire speed. However, with the recent trend of high-speed networks, the capability of a single NIDS cannot meet the speed's demand, resulting in rising of false negatives. To address this problem, Specification-based techniques have been proposed as a promising alternative that combine the strengths of misuse and anomaly detection. In this paper, we present an event calculus (EC) based framework towards the formal analysis of NIDS. This framework checks that security requirements and assumptions are preserved at run-time by monitoring the satisfaction of EC formulas that formalize them using the detection rules. This can be done by observing the network at run-time and checking observations against specified network behavior trying to detect deviations from what is specified.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in E-Activities, Information Security and Privacy - 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on E-Activities, E-ACTIVITIES'10, 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ISP'10
Pages	109-114
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	9th WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities, E-ACTIVITIES'10, 9th WSEAS International Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ISP'10 - Merida, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Duration: Dec 14 2010 → Dec 16 2010

Other

Other	9th WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities, E-ACTIVITIES'10, 9th WSEAS International Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ISP'10
Country	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
City	Merida
Period	12/14/10 → 12/16/10

Keywords

Event calculus
Formal analysis
Intrusion detection
NIDS
Security requirements

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems

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Formal analysis of intrusion detection systems for high speed networks. / Rouached, Mohsen; Sallay, Hassen; Fredj, Ouissem Ben; Ammar, Adel; Al-Shalfan, Khaled; Saad, Majdi Ben.

Advances in E-Activities, Information Security and Privacy - 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on E-Activities, E-ACTIVITIES'10, 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ISP'10. 2010. p. 109-114.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Rouached, M, Sallay, H, Fredj, OB, Ammar, A, Al-Shalfan, K & Saad, MB 2010, Formal analysis of intrusion detection systems for high speed networks. in Advances in E-Activities, Information Security and Privacy - 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on E-Activities, E-ACTIVITIES'10, 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ISP'10. pp. 109-114, 9th WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities, E-ACTIVITIES'10, 9th WSEAS International Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ISP'10, Merida, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of, 12/14/10.

Rouached, Mohsen ; Sallay, Hassen ; Fredj, Ouissem Ben ; Ammar, Adel ; Al-Shalfan, Khaled ; Saad, Majdi Ben. / Formal analysis of intrusion detection systems for high speed networks. Advances in E-Activities, Information Security and Privacy - 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on E-Activities, E-ACTIVITIES'10, 9th WSEAS Int. Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ISP'10. 2010. pp. 109-114

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