Conversation exchange dynamics: a new signal primitive for visualizing network intrusion detection

  • Authors:
  • John C. McEachen;John M. Zachary;Junling Wang;Kah Wai Cheng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California;Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina;Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

  • Venue:
  • ICECS'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS international conference on Electronics, control and signal processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

As distributed network intrusion detection systems expand to integrate hundreds and possibly thousands of sensors, managing and presenting the associated sensor data becomes an increasingly complex task. Methods of intelligent data reduction are needed to make sense of the wide dimensional variations. We present a new signal primitive we call conversation exchange dynamics (CED) that accentuates anomalies in traffic flow. This signal provides an aggregated primitive that may be used by intrusion detection systems to base detection strategies upon. Indications of the signal in a variety of simulated and actual anomalous network traffic from distributed sensor collections are presented. Specifically, attacks from the MIT Lawrence Livermore IDS data set are considered. We conclude that CED presents a useful signal primitive for assistance in conducting IDS.