Using behavior knowledge space and temporal information for detecting intrusions in computer networks

  • Authors:
  • L. P. Cordella;I. Finizio;C. Mazzariello;C. Sansone

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICAPR'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Pattern Recognition (PR) techniques have proven their ability for detecting malicious activities within network traffic. Systems based on multiple classifiers can further enforce detection capabilities by combining and correlating the results obtained by different sources. An aspect often disregarded in PR approaches dealing with the intrusion detection problem is the use of temporal information. Indeed, an attack is typically carried out along a set of consecutive network packets; therefore, a PR system could improve its reliability by examining sequences of network connections before expressing a decision. In this paper we present a system that uses a multiple classifier approach together with temporal information about the network packets to be classified. In order to improve classification reliability, we introduce the concept of rejection: instead of emitting an unreliable verdict, an ambiguously classified packet can be logged for further analysis. The proposed system has been tested on a wide database made up of real network traffic traces.