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Indra: A Distributed Approach to Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Overview While advances in computer and communications technology have made the network ubiquitous, they have also rendered networked systems vulnerable to malicious attacks orchestrated from a distance. These attacks, usually called cracker attacks or intrusions, start with crackers in-filtrating a network through a vulnerable host and then going on to launch further attacks. Crackers depend on increasingly sophisticated techniques like using distributed attack sources. On the other hand, software that guards against them remains rooted in traditional centralized techniques, presenting an easily-targetable single point of failure. Scalable, distributed network intrusion prevention software is sorely needed. This paper propose Indra - a distributed scheme that depends on sharing information between trusted peers in a network to guard the network as a whole against intrusion attempts.
| Publisher | Washington University in St. Louis | File Format | |
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| Date Published | October 2001 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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