Rule generalisation in intrusion detection systems using SNORT
by Uwe Aickelin, Jamie Twycross, Thomas Hesketh-Roberts
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007

Abstract: Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) provide an important layer of security for computer systems and networks. An IDS's responsibility is to detect suspicious or unacceptable system and network activity and to alert a systems administrator to this activity. The majority of IDSs use a set of signatures that define what suspicious traffic is, and SNORT is one popular and actively developing open-source IDS that uses such a set of signatures known as SNORT rules. Our aim is to identify a way in which SNORT could be developed further by generalising rules to identify novel attacks. In particular, we attempted to relax and vary the conditions and parameters of current SNORT rules, using a similar approach to classic rule learning operators such as generalisation and specialisation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through experiments with standard data sets and show that we are able to detect previously undetected variants of various attacks.

Online publication date: Wed, 09-May-2007

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