Title :
ITACA: Flexible, scalable network analysis
Author :
Hurley, John ; Munoz, Antonio ; Sezer, Sakir
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron., Commun., & Inf. Technol. (ECIT), Queen´´s Univ. of Belfast, Belfast, UK
Abstract :
Real-time analysis is vital to network security and management. Solutions are required that are scalable to modern network speeds while remaining flexible to ensure the latest analysis techniques can be implemented. This paper presents the Internet Traffic And Content Analyser (ITACA), an extendable general analysis tool that enables the implementation of plugins to perform specific tasks. Designed with a modular architecture akin to hardware, it is shown, with experiments on real network traffic, to outperform Bro and Snort IDSs in terms of throughput and scalability while offering increased flexibility for real-time analysis.
Keywords :
Internet; computer network management; computer network reliability; computer network security; telecommunication security; Bro IDS; ITACA extendable general analysis tool; Internet traffic and content analyser; Snort IDS; flexible scalable network analysis; modular architecture; network management; network security; network traffic; real-time analysis; Information systems; Security; Bro; ITACA; Network Analysis; Snort;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2052-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-3607
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2012.6363995