Title
Adaptive defense against various network attacks
Abbreviated Journal Title
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Keywords
adaptive defense; computer security; distributed denial-of-service; (DDoS); Internet worm; SYN flood; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications
Abstract
In defending against various network attacks, such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks or worm attacks, a defense system needs to deal with various network conditions and dynamically changing attacks. Therefore, a good defense system needs to have a built-in "adaptive defense" functionality based on cost minimization-adaptively adjusting its configurations according to the network condition and attack severity in order to minimize the combined cost introduced by false positives (misidentify normal traffic as attack) and false negatives (misidentify attack traffic as normal) at any time. In this way, the adaptive defense system can generate fewer false alarms in normal situations or under light attacks with relaxed defense configurations, while protecting a network or a server more vigorously under severe attacks. In this paper, we present concrete adaptive defense system designs for defending against two major network attacks: SYN flood DDoS attack and Internet worm infection. The adaptive defense is a high-level system design that can be built on various underlying nonadaptive detection and filtering algorithms, which makes it applicable for a wide range of security defenses.
Journal Title
Ieee Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume
24
Issue/Number
10
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
1877
Last Page
1888
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0733-8716
Recommended Citation
"Adaptive defense against various network attacks" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6781.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6781
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