• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.3 s.113
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• pp.209-220
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• 2007

IPS(Intrusion Prevention Systems), which is installed in inline mode in a network, protects network from outside attacks by inspecting the incoming/outgoing packets and sessions, and dropping the packet or closing the sessions if an attack is detected in the packet. In the signature based filtering, the payload of a packet passing through IPS is matched with some attack patterns called signatures and dropped if matched. As the number of signatures increases, the time required for the pattern matching for a packet increases accordingly so that it becomes difficult to develop a high performance US working without packet delay. In this paper, we propose a high performance IPS based on signature hashing to make the pattern matching time independent of the number of signatures. We implemented the proposed scheme in a Linux kernel module in a PC and tested it using worm generator, packet generator and network performance measure instrument called smart bit. Experimental results show that the performance of existing method is degraded as the number of signatures increases whereas the performance of the proposed scheme is not degraded.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.663-673
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• 2002

Server-side anti-viruses are useful to protect their domains, because they can detect malicious codes at the gateway of their domains. In prevailing local network, all clients cannot be perfectly controlled by domain administrators, so server-side inspection, for example in e-mail server, is used as an efficient technique of detecting mobile malicious codes. However, current server-side anti-virus systems perform only signature-based detection for known malicious codes, simple filtering, and file name modification. One of the main reasons that they don't have detection features, for unknown malicious codes, is that activity monitoring technique is unavailable for server machines. In this paper, we propose a detection technique that is executed at the server, but it can monitor activities at the clients without any anti-virus features. we describe its implementation.