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Intrusion Detection and Information Fusion/Decision Making By Ganesh Godavari Outline of Talk • Need for Intrusion Detection and Information Fusion • Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format (IDMEF) • Plan of action • Conclusion Intrusion Detection • Intrusion detection – process of discovering, analyzing, and reporting unauthorized or damaging network or computer activities – Goal is to discover violations of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and resources Problems with Intrusion Detection • Network traffic and computer activity falls in one of three categories: – Normal – Abnormal but not malicious – Malicious • Properly classifying these events are the single most difficult problem Problems contd.. • IDSes generally provide – a constant feed of new alerts – which are written into a log file • How can one minimize the number of alerts? • Does Alert Aggregation and correlation solve the problem? Problem in alert correlation • Alerts are correlated based on certain keywords • Is tomato a fruit? Or vegetable? • You want to get general information associated with an IPaddress , Port no’s • Solutions? – Can anyone suggest any? – Is this problem unique ? – No web search engines often encounter these problems – How about applying the Latent Semantic Indexing *? – Worked for search engines like google can work for information retrieval of Intrusion Detection alerts too!!. IDMEF Format Distributed IDs Event Monitoring Enabling Responses to Anomalous Live Disturbances (EMERALD) • EMERALD HIDS provides – distributed scalable tool suite for tracking malicious activity through and across large networks – Requires Sun Microsystems Sparc platform running one of: • SunOS 5.6 (Solaris 2.6) with service patch 105621-24 or newer • Solaris 7 with service patch 106541-12 or newer • Solaris 8 with service patch 108875-07 or newer TripWire • Need to get the complete version inorder to perform tests using tripwire • Currently being negotiated between tripwire and dr chow Some of the important fields • IDS important fields – src/dest ipaddress or username – src/dest portnumber – Ip packet type – Detect time of the attack – Packet content on the attack packet or malicious activity report incase of HIDS – Any other packet information required? conclusion • Can perform packet capture normal and attack traffic on both NIDS and HIDS • For HIDS if I get license for tripwire or have a Solaris box using emerald would be helpful for capturing data • Shall provide the packet dumps and ASCII packet dumps.