IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Communications of the ACM
Packet filtering in high speed networks
Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
End-to-end arguments in system design
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A fast string searching algorithm
Communications of the ACM
Efficient string matching: an aid to bibliographic search
Communications of the ACM
Snort - Lightweight Intrusion Detection for Networks
LISA '99 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on System administration
R68-40 Sequential Machines and Automata Theory
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Ghost turns zombie: exploring the life cycle of web-based malware
LEET'08 Proceedings of the 1st Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
WSIM: A Software Platform to Simulate All-Optical Security Operations
EC2ND '08 Proceedings of the 2008 European Conference on Computer Network Defense
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The network is becoming faster day by day. High-speed links, of many Gbps, are considered as commodity technology empowering the Internet. On the other hand, Moore's law still applies to current processing power. It needs about 18 months for CPUs to double the number of their transistors. A very fast network composed by not as fast processors is unable to perform basic operations needed in the security field, like firewalling and intrusion detection. In this paper, we propose a novel system, which promotes security operations in the optical domain. We describe all hardware components - optical and digital - and the software, which renders the system functional. We outline application scenarios in which a hybrid architecture of optical and digital parts, like the one we propose in this paper, can offer significant benefit to the network from a security perspective.