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Intrusion Detection System

An intrusion detection system (IDS) monitors network activity for malicious or unauthorized behavior and reports it to a management system. An intrusion prevention system (IPS) additionally attempts to block or stop detected threats. IPS technologies include network-based, wireless, and host-based varieties that can analyze traffic patterns and individual hosts to identify threats like DDoS attacks or malware. The open-source Snort software can operate in sniffing, logging, or intrusion detection/prevention modes.

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Intrusion Detection System

An intrusion detection system (IDS) monitors network activity for malicious or unauthorized behavior and reports it to a management system. An intrusion prevention system (IPS) additionally attempts to block or stop detected threats. IPS technologies include network-based, wireless, and host-based varieties that can analyze traffic patterns and individual hosts to identify threats like DDoS attacks or malware. The open-source Snort software can operate in sniffing, logging, or intrusion detection/prevention modes.

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INTRUSION DETECTION

SYSTEM
• An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a device
or software application that monitors network
or system activities for malicious activities or
policy violations and produces reports to a
Management Station.
WHAT IS IDPS ?
• Intrusion prevention systems (IPS), also
known as intrusion detection and prevention
systems (IDPS), are network security
appliances that monitor network and/or
system activities for malicious activity. The
main functions of intrusion prevention
systems are to identify malicious activity, log
information about said activity, attempt to
block/stop activity, and report activity. [
• IPS can take such actions as sending an alarm,
dropping the malicious packets, resetting the
connection and/or blocking the traffic from
the offending IP address
TYPES OF INTRUSION PREVENTION
SYSTEM

• Network-based intrusion prevention system


(NIPS): monitors the entire network for
suspicious traffic by analyzing protocol
activity.
• Wireless intrusion prevention systems
(WIPS): monitors a wireless network for
suspicious traffic by analyzing wireless
networking protocols.
• Network behavior analysis (NBA): examines
network traffic to identify threats that
generate unusual traffic flows, such as
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,
certain forms of malware, and policy
violations.
• Host-based intrusion prevention system
(HIPS): an installed software package which
monitors a single host for suspicious activity
by analyzing events occurring within that host.
Snort Modes
• Sniffer Mode
• Used to sniff traffic from network
• Traffic will be captured using libpcap or winpcap.
• Traffic will be captured directly from the sensor .
• Logger Mode
• Simple logging into a file. Two possible formats are Binary and ASCII.
• Logging into a Database (eg. MySQL)
• Can be used for creating the normal traffic profile
• Intrusion Detection / Prevention
• The rules will be used in this mode of snort to detect unwanted activity

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