Towards an anomaly detection technique for web services based on kernel methods

Author

Esfahani, Reyhaneh Ghasem ; Azgomi, Mohammad Abdollahi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Eng., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

349

Abstract

A large number of enterprises are turning to service-oriented architecture (SOA) for designing, using and managing their information technology (IT) systems. SOAP-based web services are the most commonly found services in today´s SOA implementations. This paper reviews different possible classes of vulnerabilities in web services and investigates the advantages and shortcomings of available solutions. We aim to find an anomaly detection method, which is sensitive to XML semi-structured data and is appropriate for web services. For this purpose, a new approach for anomaly detection in web services is proposed by employing kernel methods. The proposed technique is capable of detecting new unknown attacks in XML contents of the SOAP messages.

Keywords

Web services; XML; data structures; security of data; software architecture; SOAP based Web service; XML semistructured data; anomaly detection technique; information technology system; kernel method; service oriented architecture; Computer crime; Design engineering; Filtering; Kernel; Payloads; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Turning; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Information Technology, 2009. IIT '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Al Ain

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5698-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIT.2009.5413632

Filename

5413632