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Abbasi M, Afshari Haghdoost M. Improvement and parallelization of Snort network intrusion detection mechanism using graphics processing unit. JSDP 2021; 18 (1) :150-135
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Bu-Ali SIna University
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Nowadays, Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are widely used to provide full security on computer networks. IDS are categorized into two primary types, including signature-based systems and anomaly-based systems. The former is more commonly used than the latter due to its lower error rate. The core of a signature-based IDS is the pattern matching. This process is inherently a computationally intensive task, and in the worst case, about 80% of the total processing time of an IDS is spent on it. On the other hand, the rapid development of network bandwidth and high link speeds, which in turn leads to a loss of a large number of inbound packets in the network intrusion detection system, has posed challenges as crucial factors limiting the performance of this type of system. Snort is a signature-based NIDS that is highly interested due to being open-source, free, and easy to use. To resolve the challenges mentioned above, we propose an enhanced version of Snort, which is enriched by exploiting two key ideas. The first idea is the filtering of unnecessary packets based on a blacklist of source IP addresses. This filter is used as a preprocessing mechanism to improve the efficiency of the Snort. However, the packet filtering speed is decreased by increasing the network traffic volumes. Therefore, to accelerate the function of this mechanism, we have proposed a second crucial idea. The data-parallel nature of snort functions lets us parallelize two main computationally intensive functions of it on the graphical processing unit. These functions include the lookup on the blacklist filter in the preprocessing stage and the signature matching of Snort, which completes the intrusion detection process. For parallelizing the preprocessing step of Snort, first, a blacklist is provided from the DARPA dataset. Next, this blacklist is transferred together with the Snort ruleset to the global memory of the GPU. Finally, each thread concurrently matches each packet against the blacklist filters. For parallelizing the signature matching step of Snort, the well-known pattern matching algorithm of Boyer-Moore is parallelized similarly.
Evaluation results show that the proposed method, by up to 30 times faster than the sequential version, significantly improves the blacklist-based filtering performance. Also, the efficiency of the proposed method in using GPU resources for parallel intrusion detection is 81 percent higher than the best state-of-the-art method.
Evaluation results show that the proposed method, by up to 30 times faster than the sequential version, significantly improves the blacklist-based filtering performance. Also, the efficiency of the proposed method in using GPU resources for parallel intrusion detection is 81 percent higher than the best state-of-the-art method.
Keywords: Network intrusion detection system, packet filter, black list, pattern matching, graphics processing unit
Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2019/02/1 | Accepted: 2021/01/30 | Published: 2021/05/22 | ePublished: 2021/05/22
Received: 2019/02/1 | Accepted: 2021/01/30 | Published: 2021/05/22 | ePublished: 2021/05/22
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