A study in using neural networks for anomaly and misuse detection
SSYM'99 Proceedings of the 8th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 8
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Firewalls are now an integral part of network security. An intelligent firewall that prevents unauthorized access to a system has been developed. Artificial intelligence applications are uniquely suited for the ever-changing, ever-evolving world of network security. Typical firewalls are only as good as the information provided by the Network Administrator. A new type of attack creates vulnerabilities, which a static firewall does not have the ability to avoid without human direction. An AI-managed firewall service, however, can protect a computer network from known and future threats. We report in this paper on research in progress concerning the integration of different security techniques. A main purpose of the project is to integrate a smart detection engine into a firewall. The smart detection engine will aim at not only detecting anomalous network traffic as in classical IDSs, but also detecting unusual structures data packets that suggest the presence of virus data. We will report in this paper on the concept of an intelligent firewall that contains a smart detection engine for potentially malicious data packets.