Item Details

title

A Comparison of Static to Biologically Modeled Intrusion Detection Systems

author

Williams, Brian

abstract

Traditional computer security is provided through the implementation of many unique patterns, known as signatures, each used to identify a specific threat. In a world with constantly evolving threats combined with unique new attack vectors, maintaining signatures for every individual piece of malware becomes unwieldy. A biologically modeled intrusion detection system based on the behavior of a population of ants has many advantages over traditional security measures. Each ant in the virtual colony has the ability to detect one specific metric of the current state of a computer. In combination, the results of these simple tests can point to specific attacks, while the dynamic nature of the Cooperative Infrastructure Defense (CID) offers performance benefits over the traditional static setup.

subject

security

computer security

IDS

intrusion detection system

ACO

ants

contributor

Fulp, Errin (committee chair)

Thomas, Stan (committee member)

Canas, Daniel (committee member)

date

2010-05-07T18:59:25Z (accessioned)

2010-06-18T18:58:12Z (accessioned)

2010-05-07T18:59:25Z (available)

2010-06-18T18:58:12Z (available)

2010-05-07T18:59:25Z (issued)

degree

Computer Science (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/14740 (uri)

language

en_US (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

rights

Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide. (accessRights)

type

Thesis