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International Journal of Computer Application
(Special issue- Issue 5, Volume 2 (January 2015)
Available online on http://www.rspublication.com/ijca/ijca_index.htm
ISSN: 2250-1797
Dual Shielding: Detecting Intrusions in Multi-tier
Cyberspace Utilization
Niraj Parmar#1, Kalpak Binaykiya#2, Mayuri Jagtap#3, Shubham Patil#4,Sarita Patil#5,
Rashmi Deshpande#6
#1 G.H.Raisoni CoE and Management,Pune.
#2 G.H.Raisoni CoE and Management.
#3 G.H.Raisoni CoE and Management,Pune .
#4 G.H.Raisoni CoE and Management,Pune.
#5 G.H.Raisoni CoE and Management,Pune .
#6 G.H.Raisoni CoE and Management,Pune.
Abstract
Web services and applications have become an important part of day to day life, management of
personal information and communication done from internet. The strategy of Dual Shielding
mainly focuses on to detect intrusion in multitier web applications. Multitier web application
include two ends that is front end as well as back end of the applications. The front end include
web server which can responsible to run the application and gives that output to back end i.e. file
server. This strategy is useful to identify the intrusion at both front end and back end of web
application. It is used to supervise the behavior across front end web server and back end
database server or file server using IDS. We will also able to identify intrusion in static and
dynamic web application. IDS having maximum accuracy and is mainly responsible to detect
intrusion.
Keywords-Dual Shielding, Multitier web application, Intrusion Detection System, Container
Architecture, Container ID, Pattern Mapping, Apache web server with MySQL.
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INTRODUCTION
Internet Services are very much useful nowadays in many domains like banking, travel, social
networking etc. These internet services operate on the basis of web or internet. These internet
services are implemented by using front end web server (e.g. http server) and back end server
(e.g. database server or file server). Because of fame of these web services for personal or
corporate work, these are always targeted by attackers to do inappropriate activities or attacks.
Lot of existing Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) observes the network packets on their own
within web server and also in database system. There is very little
e work being performed on Anomaly Detection (AD) systems that generate models for web
server as well as database server. In such multitier design, the database server is guarded by a
firewall while the web servers are long distant accessible over the Internet. Unluckily, though
they are guarded from attacks, the back-end systems are vulnerable to attacks using normal
traffic. In order to guard, a powerful mechanism called Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is
needed. An ID is mostly used to perform security supervising of the network infrastructure.
There are two types of network IDS:
1. Anomaly detection
2. Misuse detection [1][7].
An alert is produced when an attack is detected. This alert is used to describe the type of attack
and the entities that are involved in it (e.g.-hosts, processes, users).
IDS can perform focused analysis of the examined data and they are used to generate faulty or
wrong detections. The actions that are taken in a given environment are dynamically monitored
by IDS. An IDS also decides that whether these actions are allowable in the given environment.
Fig 1: Simple Intrusion Detection System.
There are following three measures to asses’ efficiency of Intrusion Detection System:
1. Accuracy – Inaccuracy occurs when an IDS signals that an abnormal action is taken in the
given environment.
2. Performance – The performance of the system describes the quality of that system. If the
performance of IDS is not up the mark then real time detection is not possible.
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3. Completeness –Incompleteness occurs when an IDS fails to detect an attack. This is very
difficult to evaluate because it is not possible to have a global knowledge about all the attacks.
1. Introduction to multitier web application
Fig 2: Classic three-tier model.
Our project is a 3-tier architecture where there is a client, a web server and a database. The client
interacts with the web server using servlet. Here various task such as authentication process and
client request is processed. Web server processes the request of the client and if necessary sends
request to database. Database replies to the web server for the queries of the web server.
2. Types of attacks on multitier web application
The following attacks can be found in [1-5]
Fig 3 a . Privilege escalation attack.
b.
Injection attack
c. DDoS attack
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Literature Survey
The first paper Doubleguard gives a container-based IDS with many input streams which alerts
the system from threats. Secondly, Flooding attacks like DDoS can be combated both in realtime
& to attack sources. Third, both Static analysis and Dynamic analysis of system is required to
yield best result.
Proposed System
Implementation of System of Intrusion detection in multi-tiered cyberspace utilization using
container architecture as following: Duty of Container architecture is to detect intrusion in two
sides that is web server side and database side. This architecture of Intrusion Detection System
has two types, also we can say, Implementation of Container Architecture Intrusion detection
system is combination of behavioral IDS and Signature based IDS, which is nothing but Hybrid
of intrusion detection system. There is different session for each client, so if attacker attacks to a
session of a specific user. It will only be affected to that client, rest of client are not affected. The
container-based architecture not only provides the causal mapping, also provides a covering that
prevents future session-hijacking attacks. This is best approach for Intrusion Detection in
multitier cyberspace utilization. We present an efficient system using container architecture
which can detect the attacks in multi-tiered cyberspace utilization. Using our concept, we
demonstrate that, for websites that do not permit modification of content from users, there is a
direct informal relationship between front-end web server and for the database back end. We
present causality-mapping model that generates precisely and without advance knowledge of
web application functionality.
In our model, we assign each client a different session; in spite, this was a design decision. For
instance, we can appoint a new container for each new IP address of the client. We used same
session tracking process which was implemented by the Apache server (cookies, mod, user track,
etc.) the reason is lightweight virtualization. As lightweight virtualization containers do not
impose high memory and storage overhead. We could preserve a large number of simultaneously
running Apache instances. If a session timed out, the Apache instance was finished along with its
container. Imagine we used a 60-minute time out due to resource constraints of our server. Even
so, this was not a limitation and could be removed for a production scope where long-running
processes are required.
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System Architecture
Fig4. Block Diagram.
Fig4. is 3-tier model architecture. In which client generates a request and send this request to the
server. Server receives that request; the request generated by the client is processed. A different
session is maintained and processed for each client. According to process 1st level of IDS is
checked and if it is an attacker then the request is denied. If he is normal user, the server will
generate query and process that query. If the query is an attack query, then this query is dropped
and the user is denied. If the query is valid, then server is connected to database and result is
fetched out. This result is then given to the client.
MATHEMATICAL MODEL
Venn Diagram
Let us consider a set S where,
S= {U, R, SER, D, N, C, K-means ()}
Here,
S: System which includes:
U: Set of Users
Where U= {U1, U2, U3 …, Un}
SER: Server.
R: Set of Request.
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Where R= {R1, R2, R3……., Rn}
D: Database.
N: Number of Cluster. (i.e. 2)
C: Set of Centroid.
Where C={C1, C2}
C1=User centroid,
C2=Robot centroid.
If C1 > C2 then it is a User request, else it is a Robot request.
K-means (N): It is the algorithmic part of the system.
Where N is number of cluster i.e. 2.
CONCLUSION
Uses of internet are very vast as we all know. Any task can be accomplished using internet for
example, from paying bills to shopping etc. But the disadvantages of using internet cannot be
neglected. There are many ways in which users data can be hacked. But nowadays it is seen that
the back-end of a web server is targeted the most. Here the vulnerabilities of web application are
exploited so that the back-end of the system is corrupted. There have been many steps taken to
protect such intrusion so that the system’s data remains intact and is taken care of that no damage
is done to the data. A system for intrusion detection has been created with the name “Dual
Shielding: Detecting Intrusion in Multi-tier Cyberspace Utilization” for monitoring the client
request. But they are vulnerable in a multilayered system. So, we intend to protect the back-end
of our system in a multilayered system with much efficiency and accuracy. As for any
application the thing that matters the most is data. So, to protect the data from such attacks our
system provides an easy yet effective platform.
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