Deep packet inspection is widely recognized as a powerful way which is used for intrusion detection systems for inspecting, deterring and deflecting malicious attacks over the network. Fundamentally, almost intrusion detection systems have the ability to search through packets and identify contents that match with known attacks. In this paper, we survey the deep packet inspection implementations techniques, research challenges and algorithms. Finally, we provide a comparison between the different applied systems.
The evolving necessity of the Internet increases the demand on the bandwidth. Therefore, this demand opens the doors for the hackers' community to develop new methods and techniques to gain control over networking systems. Hence, the intrusion detection systems (IDS) are insufficient to prevent/detect unauthorized access the network. Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is one example that still suffers from performance degradation due the increase of the link speed in today's networks. In This paper we proposed a novel algorithm to detect the intruders, who's trying to gain access to the…
In this paper, we consider the applications of process mining in intrusion detection. We propose a novel process mining inspired algorithm to be used to preprocess data in intrusion detection systems (IDS). The algorithm is designed to process the network packet data and it works well in online mode for online intrusion detection. To test our algorithm, we used the CSE-CIC-IDS2018 dataset which contains several common attacks. The packet data was preprocessed with this algorithm and then fed into the detectors. We report on the experiments using the algorithm with different machine learning (M…
We present the first technique of passive fingerprinting for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks without Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and experience on real environment. Unlike existing work, our method does not rely on the functions of a specific product or DPI of the SCADA protocol. Our inference method, which is based on the intrinsic characteristics of SCADA, first identifies the network port used for the SCADA protocol, then consecutively infers the field devices and master server. We evaluated the effectiveness of our method using two network traces collected from a…
Networks are vulnerable to disruptions caused by malicious forwarding devices. The situation is likely to worsen in Software Defined Networks (SDNs) with the incompatibility of existing solutions, use of programmable soft switches and the potential of bringing down an entire network through compromised forwarding devices. In this paper, we present WedgeTail, an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) designed to secure the SDN data plane. WedgeTail regards forwarding devices as points within a geometric space and stores the path packets take when traversing the network as trajectories. To be efficie…
Signature-based and protocol-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) are employed as means to reveal content-based network attacks. Such systems have proven to be effective in identifying known intrusion attempts and exploits but they fail to recognize new types of attacks or carefully crafted variants of well known ones. This paper presents the design and the development of an anomaly-based IDS technique which is able to detect content-based attacks carried out over application level protocols, like HTTP and FTP. In order to identify anomalous packets, the payload is split up in chunks of equ…
Intrusion detection systems have become a key component in ensuring the safety of systems and networks. As networks grow in size and speed continues to increase, it is crucial that efficient scalable techniques should be developed for IDS systems. Signature based detection is the most extensively used threat detection technique for Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). One of the foremost challenges for signaturebased IDS systems is how to keep up with large volume of incoming traffic when each packet needs to be compared with every signature in the database. When an IDS cannot keep up with the t…
In this paper, we propose a new practical association rule mining algorithm for anomaly detection in Intrusion Detection System (IDS). First, with a view of anomaly cases being relatively rarely occurred in network packet database, we define a rare association rule among infrequent itemsets rather than the traditional association rule mining method. And then, we discuss an interest measure to catch differences between interesting relations and uninteresting ones, and what interest there is, and develop a hash based rare association rule mining algorithm for finding rare, but useful anomaly pat…
In this paper we present the design and evaluation of intrusion detection models for MANETs using supervised classification algorithms. Specifically, we evaluate the performance of the MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP), the Linear classifier, the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), the Naive Bayes classifier and the Support Vector Machine (SVM). The performance of the classification algorithms is evaluated under different traffic conditions and mobility patterns for the Black Hole, Forging, Packet Dropping, and Flooding attacks. The results indicate that Support Vector Machines exhibit high accuracy for a…
In this paper, we consider the naive applications of process mining in network traffic comprehension, traffic anomaly detection, and intrusion detection. We standardise the procedure of transforming packet data into an event log. We mine multiple process models and analyse the process models mined with the inductive miner using ProM and the fuzzy miner using Disco. We compare the two types of process models extracted from event logs of differing sizes. We contrast the process models with the RFC TCP state transition diagram and the diagram by Bishop et al. We analyse the issues and challenges …
Traffic inspection is a fundamental building block of many security solutions today. For example, to prevent the leakage or exfiltration of confidential insider information, as well as to block malicious traffic from entering the network, most enterprises today operate intrusion detection and prevention systems that inspect traffic. However, the state-of-the-art inspection systems do not reflect well the interests of the different involved autonomous roles. For example, employees in an enterprise, or a company outsourcing its network management to a specialized third party, may require that th…
A novel approach to analyze statistically the network traffic raw data is proposed. The huge amount of raw data of actual network traffic from the Intrusion Detection System is analyzed to determine if a traffic is a normal or harmful one. Using the active ports in each host in a network as sensors, the system continuously monitors the incoming packets, and generates its average behaviors at different time scales including its variances. The average region of behaviors at certain time scale is then being used as the baseline of normal traffic. Deploying the exhaustive search based decission sy…
In this paper, we present an effective intrusion response engine combined with intrusion detection in ad hoc networks. The intrusion response engine is composed of a secure communication module, a local and a global response module. Its function is based on an innovative tree-based key agreement protocol while the intrusion detection engine is based on a class of neural networks called eSOM. The proposed intrusion response model and the tree-based protocol, it is based on, are analyzed concerning key secrecy while the intrusion detection engine is evaluated for MANET under different traffic co…
Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems generally aims at detecting / preventing attacks against Information systems and networks. The basic task of IDPS is to monitor network & system traffic for any malicious packets/patterns and hence to prevent any unwarranted incidents which leads the systems to insecure state. The monitoring is done by checking each packet for its validity against the signatures formulated for identified vulnerabilities. Since, signatures are the heart & soul of an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS), we, in this paper, discuss two methodologies we adapted …
A growing issue in the modern cyberspace world is the direct identification of malicious activity over network connections. The boom of the machine learning industry in the past few years has led to the increasing usage of machine learning technologies, which are especially prevalent in the network intrusion detection research community. When utilizing these fairly contemporary techniques, the community has realized that datasets are pivotal for identifying malicious packets and connections, particularly ones associated with information concerning labeling in order to construct learning models…
. As Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems control several critical infrastructures, they have connected to the internet. Consequently, SCADA systems face different sophisticated types of cyber adversaries. This paper suggests a Probability Risk Identification based Intrusion Detection System (PRI-IDS) technique based on analysing network traffic of Modbus TCP/IP for identifying replay attacks. It is acknowledged that Modbus TCP is usually vulnerable due to its unauthenticated and unencrypted nature. Our technique is evaluated using a simulation environment by configuring a …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main research fields in the Cybersecurity domain. This is due to (a) the increased dependency on automated device, and (b) the inadequacy of general purpose Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to be deployed for special purpose networks usage. Numerous lightweight protocols are being proposed for IoT devices communication usage. One of the distinguishable IoT machine-to-machine communication protocols is Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. However, as per the authors best knowledge, there are no available IDS datasets that include MQTT …
Labeled data sets are necessary to train and evaluate anomaly-based network intrusion detection systems. This work provides a focused literature survey of data sets for network-based intrusion detection and describes the underlying packet- and flow-based network data in detail. The paper identifies 15 different properties to assess the suitability of individual data sets for specific evaluation scenarios. These properties cover a wide range of criteria and are grouped into five categories such as data volume or recording environment for offering a structured search. Based on these properties, …
The network security analyzers use intrusion detection systems (IDSes) to distinguish malicious traffic from benign ones. The deep learning-based IDSes are proposed to auto-extract high-level features and eliminate the time-consuming and costly signature extraction process. However, this new generation of IDSes still suffers from a number of challenges. One of the main issues of an IDS is facing traffic concept drift which manifests itself as new (i.e., zero-day) attacks, in addition to the changing behavior of benign users/applications. Furthermore, a practical DL-based IDS needs to be confor…
Characteristics and way of behavior of attacks and infiltrators on computer networks are usually very difficult and need an expert In addition; the advancement of computer networks, the number of attacks and infiltrations are also increasing. In fact, the knowledge coming from an expert will lose its value over time and must be updated and made available to the system and this makes the need for the expert person always felt. In machine learning techniques, knowledge is extracted from the data itself which has diminished the role of the expert. Various methods used to detect intrusions, such a…
Network intrusion detection systems are an active area of research to identify threats that face computer networks. Network packets comprise of high dimensions which require huge effort to be examined effectively. As these dimensions contain some irrelevant features, they cause a high False Alarm Rate (FAR). In this paper, we propose a hybrid method as a feature selection, based on the central points of attribute values and an Association Rule Mining algorithm to decrease the FAR. This algorithm is designed to be implemented in a short processing time, due to its dependency on the central poin…
Self-Supervised Transformer-based Contrastive Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly（电气与计算机工程系，希腊塞萨洛尼基大学）；Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, CERTH（希腊研究中心与技术中心，CERTH）
Ben Gurion University of the Negev（内盖夫本-古里安大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
Network intrusion attacks are a known threat. To detect such attacks, network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) have been developed and deployed. These systems apply machine learning models to high-dimensional vectors of features extracted from network traffic to detect intrusions. Advances in NIDSs have made it challenging for attackers, who must execute attacks without being detected by these systems. Prior research on bypassing NIDSs has mainly focused on perturbing the features extracted from the attack traffic to fool the detection system, however, this may jeopardize the attack's funct…
Network traffic data is a combination of different data bytes packets under different network protocols. These traffic packets have complex time-varying non-linear relationships. Existing state-of-the-art methods rise up to this challenge by fusing features into multiple subsets based on correlations and using hybrid classification techniques that extract spatial and temporal characteristics. This often requires high computational cost and manual support that limit them for real-time processing of network traffic. To address this, we propose a new novel feature extraction method based on covar…
Internet of Things (IoT) has brought along immense benefits to our daily lives encompassing a diverse range of application domains that we regularly interact with, ranging from healthcare automation to transport and smart environments. However, due to the limitation of constrained resources and computational capabilities, IoT networks are prone to various cyber attacks. Thus, defending the IoT network against adversarial attacks is of vital importance. In this paper, we present a novel intrusion detection approach for IoT networks through the application of a deep learning technique. We adopt …
This paper uses network packet capture data to demonstrate how Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) can be used in a new way to detect anomalies which serve as cyber-network attack indicators. The approach requires only a few parameters to be learned using partitioned training data and shows promise of ameliorating the need for an exhaustive set of examples of different types of network attacks. For Lincoln Lab's DARPA intrusion detection data set, the method achieves low false-positive rates while maintaining reasonable true-positive rates on individual packets. In addition, the method …
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad（马什哈德菲尔多西大学）；K.N Toosi University of Technology（K.N.图西理工大学）
In the most intrusion detection systems (IDS), a system tries to learn characteristics of different type of attacks by analyzing packets that sent or received in network. These packets have a lot of features. But not all of them is required to be analyzed to detect that specific type of attack. Detection speed and computational cost is another vital matter here, because in these types of problems, datasets are very huge regularly. In this paper we tried to propose a very simple and fast feature selection method to eliminate features with no helpful information on them. Result faster learning i…
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences（基础科学研究所）；Sharif University of Technology（谢里夫理工大学）；Iran University of Science and Technology（伊朗科技大学）
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the most effective solutions for providing primary security services. IDSs are generally working based on attack signatures or by detecting anomalies. In this paper, we have presented AutoIDS, a novel yet efficient solution for IDS, based on a semi-supervised machine learning technique. AutoIDS can distinguish abnormal packet flows from normal ones by taking advantage of cascading two efficient detectors. These detectors are two encoder-decoder neural networks that are forced to provide a compressed and a sparse representation from the normal flows. I…
Intrusion Detection System or IDS is a software or hardware tool that repeatedly scans and monitors events that took place in a computer or a network. A set of rules are used by Signature based Network Intrusion Detection Systems or NIDS to detect hostile traffic in network segments or packets, which are so important in detecting malicious and anomalous behaviour over the network like known attacks that hackers look for new techniques to go unseen. Sometime, a single failure at any layer will cause the NIDS to miss that attack. To overcome this problem, a technique is used that will trigger a …
Packet Inspection Transformer: A Self-Supervised Journey to Unseen Malware Detection with Few Samples
Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA（智能系统与机器人系，西佛罗里达大学，佛罗里达州彭萨科大，USA）；Florida Institute For Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, FL, USA（佛罗里达人类与机器认知研究所（IHMC），佛罗里达州彭萨科大，USA）；Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA（网络安全中心，西佛罗里达大学，佛罗里达州彭萨科大，USA）
IEEE 802.1 Time-sensitive Networking~(TSN) standards are envisioned to replace legacy network protocols in critical domains to ensure reliable and deterministic communication over off-the-shelf Ethernet equipment. However, they lack security countermeasures and can even impose new attack vectors that may lead to hazardous consequences. This paper presents the first open-source security monitoring and intrusion detection mechanism, TSNZeek, for IEEE 802.1 TSN protocols. We extend an existing monitoring tool, Zeek, with a new packet parsing grammar to process TSN data traffic and a rule-based at…
XG-NID: Dual-Modality Network Intrusion Detection using a Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network and Large Language Model
Clean and Resilient Energy System Lab (CARES), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University（清洁而坚韧的能量系统实验室（CARES），电气与计算机工程系，德克萨斯A&M大学）；Army Cyber Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, United States Military Academy（陆军网络学院，电气工程与计算机科学系，美国军事学院）
本文提出 XG-NID 框架，首次在异构图结构中融合流级与包级数据，结合异构图神经网络和大语言模型实现实时入侵检测与可解释分析，多分类 F1 达 97%，并配套开源工具 GNN4ID。
Modern vehicles rely on scores of electronic control units (ECUs) broadcasting messages over a few controller area networks (CANs). Bereft of security features, in-vehicle CANs are exposed to cyber manipulation and multiple researches have proved viable, life-threatening cyber attacks. Complicating the issue, CAN messages lack a common mapping of functions to commands, so packets are observable but not easily decipherable. We present a transformational approach to CAN IDS that exploits the geometric properties of CAN data to inform two novel detectors--one based on distance from a learned, low…
One of deep learning's attractive benefits is the ability to automatically extract relevant features for a target problem from largely raw data, instead of utilizing human engineered and error prone handcrafted features. While deep learning has shown success in fields such as image classification and natural language processing, its application for feature extraction on raw network packet data for intrusion detection is largely unexplored. In this paper we modify a Word2Vec approach, used for text processing, and apply it to packet data for automatic feature extraction. We call this approach P…
DHA Suffa University（DHA Suffa大学）；Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology（卡拉奇经济技术学院）；DNNae Inc.（DNNae公司）；Singapore University of Technology and Design（新加坡科技设计大学）
Methods from machine learning are being applied to design Industrial Control Systems resilient to cyber-attacks. Such methods focus on two major areas: the detection of intrusions at the network-level using the information acquired through network packets, and detection of anomalies at the physical process level using data that represents the physical behavior of the system. This survey focuses on four types of methods from machine learning in use for intrusion and anomaly detection, namely, supervised, semi-supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Literature available in the publ…
The Internet of things (IoT) is still in its infancy and has attracted much interest in many industrial sectors including medical fields, logistics tracking, smart cities and automobiles. However as a paradigm, it is susceptible to a range of significant intrusion threats. This paper presents a threat analysis of the IoT and uses an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to combat these threats. A multi-level perceptron, a type of supervised ANN, is trained using internet packet traces, then is assessed on its ability to thwart Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS/DoS) attacks. This paper focuses on t…
