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

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

1069

Lastpage

1073

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6363995

Filename

6363995