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Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection by Correlation of Modularly Hashed Sketches

DRAŠAR, Martin; Tomáš JIRSÍK and Martin VIZVÁRY

Basic information

Original name

Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection by Correlation of Modularly Hashed Sketches

Authors

DRAŠAR, Martin; Tomáš JIRSÍK and Martin VIZVÁRY

Edition

Berlin, Monitoring and Securing Virtualized Networks and Services, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8508, p. 160-172, 13 pp. 2014

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Field of Study

Informatics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

Marked to be transferred to RIV

Yes

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14610/14:00073230

Organization

Ústav výpočetní techniky – Repository – Repository

ISBN

978-3-662-43861-9

ISSN

UT WoS

000347615900019

Keywords in English

intrusion detection; NetFlow; sketch; modular hashes; correlation

Links

VF20132015031, research and development project.
Changed: 1/9/2020 20:58, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

In the original language

The rapid development of network technologies entails an increase in traffic volume and attack count. The associated increase in computational complexity for methods of deep packet inspection has driven the development of behavioral detection methods. These methods distinguish attackers from valid users by measuring how closely their behavior resembles known anomalous behavior. In real-life deployment, an attacker is flagged only on very close resemblance to avoid false positives. However, many attacks can then go undetected. We believe that this problem can be solved by using more detection methods and then correlating their results. These methods can be set to higher sensitivity, and false positives are then reduced by accepting only attacks reported from more sources. To this end we propose a novel sketch-based method that can detect attackers using a correlation of particular anomaly detections. This is in contrast with the current use of sketch-based methods that focuses on the detection of heavy hitters and heavy changes. We illustrate the potential of our method by detecting attacks on RDP and SSH authentication by correlating four methods detecting the following anomalies: source network scan, destination network scan, abnormal connection count, and low traffic variance. We evaluate our method in terms of detection capabilities compared to other deployed detection methods, hardware requirements, and the attacker’s ability to evade detection.
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