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

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.