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Unit 5 IDS

An intrusion detection system (IDS) monitors network traffic and system activities for malicious activities and policy violations. There are several types of IDS including network IDS, host IDS, protocol-based IDS, application protocol IDS, and hybrid IDS. IDS can use signature-based methods to detect known attacks by pattern matching or anomaly-based methods using machine learning to detect unknown attacks by comparing activities to a trusted model.

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Unit 5 IDS

An intrusion detection system (IDS) monitors network traffic and system activities for malicious activities and policy violations. There are several types of IDS including network IDS, host IDS, protocol-based IDS, application protocol IDS, and hybrid IDS. IDS can use signature-based methods to detect known attacks by pattern matching or anomaly-based methods using machine learning to detect unknown attacks by comparing activities to a trusted model.

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UNIT 5

Intrusion Detection System


• An intrusion is somebody attempting to break
into or misuse your system.
• An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a device
(or application) that monitors network and/or
system activities for malicious activities or
policy violations.
• An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a system
that monitors network traffic for suspicious activity
and issues alerts when such activity is discovered.
• It is a software application that scans a network or a
system for harmful activity or policy breaching.
• Any malicious venture or violation is normally
reported either to an administrator or collected
centrally using a security information and event
management (SIEM) system.
Classification of Intrusion Detection System:

• IDS are classified into 5 types:


• Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS):
Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) are set up at a planned
point within the network to examine traffic from all devices on the
network.
• It performs an observation of passing traffic on the entire subnet
and matches the traffic that is passed on the subnets to the
collection of known attacks.
• Once an attack is identified or abnormal behavior is observed, the
alert can be sent to the administrator.
• An example of an NIDS is installing it on the subnet where firewalls
are located in order to see if someone is trying crack the firewall.
HIDS
• Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS):
Host intrusion detection systems (HIDS) run on independent hosts
or devices on the network.
• A HIDS monitors the incoming and outgoing packets from the
device only and will alert the administrator if suspicious or
malicious activity is detected.
• It takes a snapshot of existing system files and compares it with
the previous snapshot.
• If the analytical system files were edited or deleted, an alert is sent
to the administrator to investigate.
• An example of HIDS usage can be seen on mission critical
machines, which are not expected to change their layout.
Protocol-based Intrusion Detection System
(PIDS)
• Protocol-based Intrusion Detection System (PIDS):
Protocol-based intrusion detection system (PIDS)
comprises of a system or agent that would
consistently resides at the front end of a server,
controlling and interpreting the protocol between
a user/device and the server.
• It is trying to secure the web server by regularly
monitoring the HTTPS protocol stream and accept
the related HTTP protocol.
• Application Protocol-based Intrusion Detection System
(APIDS):
Application Protocol-based Intrusion Detection System
(APIDS) is a system or agent that generally resides within
a group of servers.
• It identifies the intrusions by monitoring and interpreting
the communication on application specific protocols.
• For example, this would monitor the SQL protocol explicit
to the middleware as it transacts with the database in the
web server.
HIDS
• Hybrid Intrusion Detection System :
Hybrid intrusion detection system is made by the
combination of two or more approaches of the
intrusion detection system.
• In the hybrid intrusion detection system, host agent
or system data is combined with network information
to develop a complete view of the network system.
• Hybrid intrusion detection system is more effective in
comparison to the other intrusion detection system.
Prelude is an example of Hybrid IDS.
Detection Method of IDS:

• Signature-based Method:
Signature-based IDS detects the attacks on the basis of the
specific patterns such as number of bytes or number of 1’s
or number of 0’s in the network traffic.
• It also detects on the basis of the already known malicious
instruction sequence that is used by the malware.
• The detected patterns in the IDS are known as
signatures.Signature-based IDS can easily detect the attacks
whose pattern (signature) already exists in system but it is
quite difficult to detect the new malware attacks as their
pattern (signature) is not known.
Anomaly-based Method:
• Anomaly-based IDS was introduced to detect the unknown
malware attacks as new malware are developed rapidly.
• In anomaly-based IDS there is use of machine learning to
create a trustful activity model and anything coming is
compared with that model and it is declared suspicious if
it is not found in model.
• Machine learning based method has a better generalized
property in comparison to signature-based IDS as these
models can be trained according to the applications and
hardware configurations.

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