• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
• /
• v.14C no.3 s.113
• /
• pp.209-220
• /
• 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 the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.14 no.6
• /
• pp.91-103
• /
• 2004

The survey of network firewall system has been focused on the deny policy that protects information from the unlicensed and the intrusion detection system. Government has solved several firewall problems as building the intranet separated from the intranet. However, the new firewall system would been satisfied both the denialpolicy and information share with the public, according as government recently emphasizes electronic service. Namely, it has to provide the functions such as the information exchange among divisions, partial share of information with the public, network connection and the interception of illegal access. Also, it considers the solution that protects system from hacking by inner user and damage of virus such as Worm. This Paper suggests the protects information system using the intrusion prevention system and role-based security policy to support the partial opennessand the security that satisfied information share among governments and public service.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
• /
• v.16C no.4
• /
• pp.449-460
• /
• 2009

The signature hashing algorithm[9] provides the fast pattern matching speed for network IPS(Intrusion Prevention System) using the hash table. It selects 2 bytes from all signature rules and links to the hash table by the hash value. It has an advantage of performance improvement because it reduces the number of inspecting rules in the pattern matching. However it has a disadvantage of performance drop if the number of rules with the same hash value increases when the number of rules are large and the corelation among rules is strong. In this paper, we propose a method to make all rules distributed evenly to the hash table independent of the number of rules and corelation among rules for overcoming the disadvantage of the signature hashing algorithm. In the proposed method, it checks whether or not there is an already assigned rule linked to the same hash value before a new rule is linked to a hash value in the hash table. If there is no assigned rule, the new rule is linked to the hash value. Otherwise, the proposed method recalculate a hash value to put it in other position. We implemented the proposed method in a PC with a Linux module and performed experiments using Iperf as a network performance measurement tool. The signature hashing method shows performance drop if the number of rules with the same hash value increases when the number of rules are large and the corelation among rules is strong, but the proposed method shows no performance drop independent of the number of rules and corelation among rules.

• Convergence Security Journal
• /
• v.10 no.2
• /
• pp.1-9
• /
• 2010

Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS) developed by Sourcefire. Combining the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly-based inspection, Snort is the most widely deployed IDS/IPS technology worldwide. With millions of downloads and approximately 300,000 registered users. Snort identifies network indicators by inspecting network packets in transmission. A process on a host's machine usually generates these network indicators. This means whatever the snort signature matches the packet, that same signature must be in memory for some period (possibly micro seconds) of time. Finally, investigate some security issues that you should consider when running a Snort system. Paper coverage includes: How an IDS Works, Where Snort fits, Snort system requirements, Exploring Snort's features, Using Snort on your network, Snort and your network architecture, security considerations with snort under digital forensic windows environment.

• Convergence Security Journal
• /
• v.6 no.2
• /
• pp.91-99
• /
• 2006

As the speed of network has fastened and the Internet has became common, an ill-intentioned aggression, such as worm and E-mail virus rapidly increased. So that there too many defenses created the recent Intrusion detection system as well as the Intrusion Prevention Systems to defense the malicious aggression to the network. Also as the form of malicious aggression has changed, at the same time the method of defense has changed. There is "snort" the most representive method of defense and its Rules file increases due to the change of aggression form. This causes decline of capability for detection. This paper suggest, design, and realize the structure for the improvement of processing capability by separating the files of Snort Rule according to o/s. This system show more improvement of the processing capability than the existing composion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
• /
• 2007.06d
• /
• pp.489-494
• /
• 2007

침입방지 시스템(IPS, Intrusion Prevention System)은 인라인모드(in-line mode)로 네트워크에 설치되어, 네트워크를 지나는 패킷 또는 세션을 검사하여 만일 그 패킷에서 공격이 감지되면 해당 패킷을 폐기하거나 세션을 종료시킴으로서 외부의 침입으로부터 네트워크를 보호하는 시스템을 의미한다. 침입방지 시스템은 크게 두 가지 종류의 동작을 수행한다. 하나는 이미 알려진 공격으로부터 방어하는 시그너처 기반 필터링(signature based filtering)이고 다른 하나는 알려지지 않은 공격이나 비정상 세션으로부터 방어하는 자기 학습 기반의 변칙 탐지 및 방지(anomaly detection and prevention based on selflearning)이다. 시그너처 기반 필터링에서는 침입방지시스템을 통과하는 패킷의 페이로드와 시그너처라고 불리는 공격 패턴들과 비교하여 같으면 그 패킷을 폐기한다. 시그너처의 개수가 증가함에 따라 하나의 들어온 패킷에 대하여 요구되는 패턴 매칭 시간은 증가하게 되어 패킷지연 없이 동작하는 고성능 침입탐지시스템을 개발하는 것이 어렵게 되었다. 공개 침입방지 소프트웨어인 SNORT를 위한 여러 개의 효율적인 패턴 매칭 방식들이 제안되었는데 시그너처들의 공통된 부분에 대해 한번만 매칭을 수행하거나 한 바이트 단위 비교대신 여러 바이트 비교 동작을 수행함으로써 불필요한 매칭동작을 줄이려고 하였다. 본 논문에서는 패턴 매칭 시간을 시그너처의 개수와 무관하게 하기 위하여 시그너처 해싱 기반에 기반한 고성능 침입방지시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.20 no.6
• /
• pp.221-235
• /
• 2010

Internet service providers provide various security services, such as firewall, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, along with their main Internet services. Those security service users have no idea what kind of quality services they are guaranteed. And therefore, Internet users interest in Security Service Level Agreement(SLA) increases as their interest in secure Internet service increases. However, there wasn't any researches in the S-SLA area domestically and there are only limited SLA indexes related to system or service maintenances at the moment. Therefore, this paper analyses security functions in IPS services and categorize them into common and independent security functions. Finally to improve quality of security services, this paper proposes S-SLA indexes depending on the different security levels. This will be subdivide into agreement on security service.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.13 no.6
• /
• pp.129-140
• /
• 2003

Recently viruses and various hacking tools that threat hosts on a network becomes more intelligent and cleverer, and so the various security mechanisms against them have ken developed during last decades. To detect these network attacks, many NIPSs(Network-based Intrusion Prevention Systems) that are more functional than traditional NIDSs are developed by several companies and organizations. But, many previous NIPSS are hewn to have some weakness in protecting important hosts from network attacks because of its incorrectness and post-management aspects. The aspect of incorrectness means that many NIPSs incorrectly discriminate between normal and attack network traffic in real time. The aspect of post-management means that they generally respond to attacks after the intrusions are already performed to a large extent. Therefore, to detect network attacks in realtime and to increase the capability of analyzing packets, faster and more active responding capabilities are required for NIPS frameworks. In this paper, we propose a framework for real-time intrusion prevention. This framework consists of packet filtering component that works on netfilter in Linux kernel and traffic control component that have a capability of step-by-step control over abnormal network traffic with the CBQ mechanism.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
• /
• v.24 no.5
• /
• pp.27-33
• /
• 2019

One of serious security threats is a botnet-based attack. A botnet in general consists of numerous bots, which are computing devices with networking function, such as personal computers, smartphones, or tiny IoT sensor devices compromised by malicious codes or attackers. Such botnets can launch various serious cyber-attacks like DDoS attacks, propagating mal-wares, and spreading spam e-mails over the network. To establish a botnet, attackers usually inject malicious URLs into web source codes stealthily by using data hiding methods like Javascript obfuscation techniques to avoid being discovered by traditional security systems such as Firewall, IPS(Intrusion Prevention System) or IDS(Intrusion Detection System). Meanwhile, it is non-trivial work in practice for software developers to manually find such malicious URLs which are hidden in numerous web source codes stored in web servers. In this paper, we propose a security defense system to discover such suspicious, malicious URLs hidden in web source codes, and present experiment results that show its discovery performance. In particular, based on our experiment results, our proposed system discovered 100% of URLs hidden by Javascript encoding obfuscation within sample web source files.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.21 no.1
• /
• pp.27-37
• /
• 2011

The IDS/IPS(Intrusion Detection/Prevention System) has been widely deployed to protect the internal network against internet attacks. Reducing the packet inspection time is one of the most important challenges of improving the performance of the IDS/IPS. Since the IDS/IPS needs to match multiple patterns for the incoming traffic, we may have to apply the multiple pattern matching schemes, some of which use finite automata, while the others use the shift table. In this paper, we first show that the performance of those schemes would degrade with various kinds of pattern sets and payload, and then propose a hybrid multiple pattern matching scheme which combines those two schemes. The proposed scheme is organized to guarantee an appropriate level of performance in any cases. The experimental results using real traffic show that the time required to do multiple pattern matching could be reduced effectively.