Embedded Port Scanner (EPSS) System using linux and Single Board Computer

Author

Ahmed, N. ; Khalib, Z.I.A. ; Ahmed, R.B. ; Ghossoon, W.M. ; Sudin, Suhizaz ; Asi, Salina

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Perlis, Kangar

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents our effort and to realize possible usage on embedded Linux platform for Intrusion Detection (Port Scan). The approach was to develop software which performs port scan using half-open and udp technique. The software is then executed on a Linux based Single Board Computer (SBC) which runs TS-Linux 2.4.23 kernel developed by Technology System (TS). It is interesting enough to find that regardless of the limitation of processing power, the system performance on the embedded platform is at par with other port scanners running on a much better performance PC. The findings indicate that low end embedded Linux platform is suitable for network security application and it is marketable at a lower cost with the extra benefit of portability.

Keywords

Linux; embedded systems; image scanners; microcomputers; security of data; Port Scan; TS-Linux 2.4.23 kernel; embedded system; intrusion detection; network defense; single board computer; technology system; Application software; Computer networks; Computer security; Embedded computing; Embedded system; Hardware; Intrusion detection; Linux; Operating systems; Power system security; Embedded System; Intrusion Detection System; Network defense; Port Scan;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Design, 2008. ICED 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2315-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2315-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICED.2008.4786717

Filename

4786717