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- INTRUSION DETECTION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS.
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NGUYEN, HONG NHUNG, Turgut, Damla, University of Central Florida
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There are several applications that use sensor motes and researchers continue to explore additional applications. For this particular application of detecting the movement of humans through the sensor field, a set of Berkley mica2 motes on TinyOS operating system is used. Different sensors such as pressure, light, and so on can be used to identify the presence of an intruder in the field. In our case, the light sensor is chosen for the detection. When an intruder crosses the monitored...
Show moreThere are several applications that use sensor motes and researchers continue to explore additional applications. For this particular application of detecting the movement of humans through the sensor field, a set of Berkley mica2 motes on TinyOS operating system is used. Different sensors such as pressure, light, and so on can be used to identify the presence of an intruder in the field. In our case, the light sensor is chosen for the detection. When an intruder crosses the monitored environment, the system detects the changes of the light values, and any significant change meaning that a change greater than a pre-defined threshold. This indicates the presence of an intruder. An integrated web cam is used to take snapshot of the intruder and transmit the picture through the network to a remote station. The basic motivation of this thesis is that a sensor web system can be used to monitor and detect any intruder in a specific area from a remote location.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- Identifier
- CFE0001027, ucf:46793
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001027
- Title
- NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION: MONITORING, SIMULATION ANDVISUALIZATION.
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Zhou, Mian, Lang, Sheau-Dong, University of Central Florida
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This dissertation presents our work on network intrusion detection and intrusion sim- ulation. The work in intrusion detection consists of two different network anomaly-based approaches. The work in intrusion simulation introduces a model using explicit traffic gen- eration for the packet level traffic simulation. The process of anomaly detection is to first build profiles for the normal network activity and then mark any events or activities that deviate from the normal profiles as...
Show moreThis dissertation presents our work on network intrusion detection and intrusion sim- ulation. The work in intrusion detection consists of two different network anomaly-based approaches. The work in intrusion simulation introduces a model using explicit traffic gen- eration for the packet level traffic simulation. The process of anomaly detection is to first build profiles for the normal network activity and then mark any events or activities that deviate from the normal profiles as suspicious. Based on the different schemes of creating the normal activity profiles, we introduce two approaches for intrusion detection. The first one is a frequency-based approach which creates a normal frequency profile based on the periodical patterns existed in the time-series formed by the traffic. It aims at those attacks that are conducted by running pre-written scripts, which automate the process of attempting connections to various ports or sending packets with fabricated payloads, etc. The second approach builds the normal profile based on variations of connection-based behavior of each single computer. The deviations resulted from each individual computer are carried out by a weight assignment scheme and further used to build a weighted link graph representing the overall traffic abnormalities. The functionality of this system is of a distributed personal IDS system that also provides a centralized traffic analysis by graphical visualization. It provides a finer control over the internal network by focusing on connection-based behavior of each single computer. For network intrusion simulation, we explore an alternative method for network traffic simulation using explicit traffic generation. In particular, we build a model to replay the standard DARPA traffic data or the traffic data captured from a real environment. The replayed traffic data is mixed with the attacks, such as DOS and Probe attack, which can create apparent abnormal traffic flow patterns. With the explicit traffic generation, every packet that has ever been sent by the victim and attacker is formed in the simulation model and travels around strictly following the criteria of time and path that extracted from the real scenario. Thus, the model provides a promising aid in the study of intrusion detection techniques.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- Identifier
- CFE0000679, ucf:46484
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- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000679
- Title
- CREATING MODELS OF INTERNET BACKGROUND TRAFFIC SUITABLE FOR USE IN EVALUATING NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS.
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LUO, SONG, Marin, Gerald, University of Central Florida
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This dissertation addresses Internet background traffic generation and network intrusion detection. It is organized in two parts. Part one introduces a method to model realistic Internet background traffic and demonstrates how the models are used both in a simulation environment and in a lab environment. Part two introduces two different NID (Network Intrusion Detection) techniques and evaluates them using the modeled background traffic. To demonstrate the approach we modeled five major...
Show moreThis dissertation addresses Internet background traffic generation and network intrusion detection. It is organized in two parts. Part one introduces a method to model realistic Internet background traffic and demonstrates how the models are used both in a simulation environment and in a lab environment. Part two introduces two different NID (Network Intrusion Detection) techniques and evaluates them using the modeled background traffic. To demonstrate the approach we modeled five major application layer protocols: HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP and POP3. The model of each protocol includes an empirical probability distribution plus estimates of application-specific parameters. Due to the complexity of the traffic, hybrid distributions (called mixture distributions) were sometimes required. The traffic models are demonstrated in two environments: NS-2 (a simulator) and HONEST (a lab environment). The simulation results are compared against the original captured data sets. Users of HONEST have the option of adding network attacks to the background. The dissertation also introduces two new template-based techniques for network intrusion detection. One is based on a template of autocorrelations of the investigated traffic, while the other uses a template of correlation integrals. Detection experiments have been performed on real traffic and attacks; the results show that the two techniques can achieve high detection probability and low false alarm in certain instances.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- Identifier
- CFE0000852, ucf:46667
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- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000852
- Title
- SESSION-BASED INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM TO MAP ANOMALOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC.
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Caulkins, Bruce, Wang, Morgan, University of Central Florida
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Computer crime is a large problem (CSI, 2004; Kabay, 2001a; Kabay, 2001b). Security managers have a variety of tools at their disposal – firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), encryption, authentication, and other hardware and software solutions to combat computer crime. Many IDS variants exist which allow security managers and engineers to identify attack network packets primarily through the use of signature detection; i.e., the IDS recognizes attack packets due to their well...
Show moreComputer crime is a large problem (CSI, 2004; Kabay, 2001a; Kabay, 2001b). Security managers have a variety of tools at their disposal – firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), encryption, authentication, and other hardware and software solutions to combat computer crime. Many IDS variants exist which allow security managers and engineers to identify attack network packets primarily through the use of signature detection; i.e., the IDS recognizes attack packets due to their well-known "fingerprints" or signatures as those packets cross the network's gateway threshold. On the other hand, anomaly-based ID systems determine what is normal traffic within a network and reports abnormal traffic behavior. This paper will describe a methodology towards developing a more-robust Intrusion Detection System through the use of data-mining techniques and anomaly detection. These data-mining techniques will dynamically model what a normal network should look like and reduce the false positive and false negative alarm rates in the process. We will use classification-tree techniques to accurately predict probable attack sessions. Overall, our goal is to model network traffic into network sessions and identify those network sessions that have a high-probability of being an attack and can be labeled as a "suspect session." Subsequently, we will use these techniques inclusive of signature detection methods, as they will be used in concert with known signatures and patterns in order to present a better model for detection and protection of networks and systems.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- Identifier
- CFE0000906, ucf:46762
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000906
- Title
- ON THE APPLICATION OF LOCALITY TO NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION: WORKING-SET ANALYSIS OF REAL AND SYNTHETIC NETWORK SERVER TRAFFIC.
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Lee, Robert, Lang, Sheau-Dong, University of Central Florida
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Keeping computer networks safe from attack requires ever-increasing vigilance. Our work on applying locality to network intrusion detection is presented in this dissertation. Network servers that allow connections from both the internal network and the Internet are vulnerable to attack from all sides. Analysis of the behavior of incoming connections for properties of locality can be used to create a normal profile for such network servers. Intrusions can then be detected due to their abnormal...
Show moreKeeping computer networks safe from attack requires ever-increasing vigilance. Our work on applying locality to network intrusion detection is presented in this dissertation. Network servers that allow connections from both the internal network and the Internet are vulnerable to attack from all sides. Analysis of the behavior of incoming connections for properties of locality can be used to create a normal profile for such network servers. Intrusions can then be detected due to their abnormal behavior. Data was collected from a typical network server both under normal conditions and under specific attacks. Experiments show that connections to the server do in fact exhibit locality, and attacks on the server can be detected through their violation of locality. Key to the detection of locality is a data structure called a working-set, which is a kind of cache of certain data related to network connections. Under real network conditions, we have demonstrated that the working-set behaves in a manner consistent with locality. Determining the reasons for this behavior is our next goal. A model that generates synthetic traffic based on actual network traffic allows us to study basic traffic characteristics. Simulation of working-set processing of the synthetic traffic shows that it behaves much like actual traffic. Attacks inserted into a replay of the synthetic traffic produce working-set responses similar to those produced in actual traffic. In the future, our model can be used to further the development of intrusion detection strategies.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- Identifier
- CFE0002718, ucf:48171
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- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002718
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- HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA MINING TECHNIQUES FOR INTRUSION DETECTION.
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Siddiqui, Muazzam Ahmed, Lee, Joohan, University of Central Florida
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The rapid growth of computers transformed the way in which information and data was stored. With this new paradigm of data access, comes the threat of this information being exposed to unauthorized and unintended users. Many systems have been developed which scrutinize the data for a deviation from the normal behavior of a user or system, or search for a known signature within the data. These systems are termed as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). These systems employ different techniques...
Show moreThe rapid growth of computers transformed the way in which information and data was stored. With this new paradigm of data access, comes the threat of this information being exposed to unauthorized and unintended users. Many systems have been developed which scrutinize the data for a deviation from the normal behavior of a user or system, or search for a known signature within the data. These systems are termed as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). These systems employ different techniques varying from statistical methods to machine learning algorithms.Intrusion detection systems use audit data generated by operating systems, application softwares or network devices. These sources produce huge amount of datasets with tens of millions of records in them. To analyze this data, data mining is used which is a process to dig useful patterns from a large bulk of information. A major obstacle in the process is that the traditional data mining and learning algorithms are overwhelmed by the bulk volume and complexity of available data. This makes these algorithms impractical for time critical tasks like intrusion detection because of the large execution time.Our approach towards this issue makes use of high performance data mining techniques to expedite the process by exploiting the parallelism in the existing data mining algorithms and the underlying hardware. We will show that how high performance and parallel computing can be used to scale the data mining algorithms to handle large datasets, allowing the data mining component to search a much larger set of patterns and models than traditional computational platforms and algorithms would allow.We develop parallel data mining algorithms by parallelizing existing machine learning techniques using cluster computing. These algorithms include parallel backpropagation and parallel fuzzy ARTMAP neural networks. We evaluate the performances of the developed models in terms of speedup over traditional algorithms, prediction rate and false alarm rate. Our results showed that the traditional backpropagation and fuzzy ARTMAP algorithms can benefit from high performance computing techniques which make them well suited for time critical tasks like intrusion detection.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2004
- Identifier
- CFE0000056, ucf:46142
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- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000056
- Title
- AN INTERACTIVE DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION FRAMEWORK WITH APPLICATION TO WIRELESS NETWORKS AND INTRUSION DETECTION.
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Kachirski, Oleg, Guha, Ratan, University of Central Florida
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In this dissertation, we describe the portable, open-source distributed simulation framework (WINDS) targeting simulations of wireless network infrastructures that we have developed. We present the simulation framework which uses modular architecture and apply the framework to studies of mobility pattern effects, routing and intrusion detection mechanisms in simulations of large-scale wireless ad hoc, infrastructure, and totally mobile networks. The distributed simulations within the...
Show moreIn this dissertation, we describe the portable, open-source distributed simulation framework (WINDS) targeting simulations of wireless network infrastructures that we have developed. We present the simulation framework which uses modular architecture and apply the framework to studies of mobility pattern effects, routing and intrusion detection mechanisms in simulations of large-scale wireless ad hoc, infrastructure, and totally mobile networks. The distributed simulations within the framework execute seamlessly and transparently to the user on a symmetric multiprocessor cluster computer or a network of computers with no modifications to the code or user objects. A visual graphical interface precisely depicts simulation object states and interactions throughout the simulation execution, giving the user full control over the simulation in real time. The network configuration is detected by the framework, and communication latency is taken into consideration when dynamically adjusting the simulation clock, allowing the simulation to run on a heterogeneous computing system. The simulation framework is easily extensible to multi-cluster systems and computing grids. An entire simulation system can be constructed in a short time, utilizing user-created and supplied simulation components, including mobile nodes, base stations, routing algorithms, traffic patterns and other objects. These objects are automatically compiled and loaded by the simulation system, and are available for dynamic simulation injection at runtime. Using our distributed simulation framework, we have studied modern intrusion detection systems (IDS) and assessed applicability of existing intrusion detection techniques to wireless networks. We have developed a mobile agent-based IDS targeting mobile wireless networks, and introduced load-balancing optimizations aimed at limited-resource systems to improve intrusion detection performance. Packet-based monitoring agents of our IDS employ a CASE-based reasoner engine that performs fast lookups of network packets in the existing SNORT-based intrusion rule-set. Experiments were performed using the intrusion data from MIT Lincoln Laboratories studies, and executed on a cluster computer utilizing our distributed simulation system.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- Identifier
- CFE0000642, ucf:46545
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000642
