19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '03)
Log Correlation for Intrusion Detection: A Proof of Concept
Las Vegas, Nevada
December 08-December 12
ISBN: 0-7692-2041-3
Cristina Abad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Jed Taylor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William Yurcik, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Ken Rowe, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Intrusion detection is an important part of networked-systems security protection. Although commercial products exist, finding intrusions has proven to be a difficult task with limitations under current techniques. Therefore, improved techniques are needed. We argue the need for correlating data among different logs to improve intrusion detection systems accuracy. We show how different attacks are reflected in different logs and argue that some attacks are not evident when a single log is analyzed. We present experimental results using anomaly detection for the virus Yaha. Through the use of data mining tools (RIPPER) and correlation among logs we improve the effectiveness of an intrusion detection system while reducing false positives.
Citation:
Cristina Abad, Jed Taylor, Cigdem Sengul, William Yurcik, Yuanyuan Zhou, Ken Rowe, "Log Correlation for Intrusion Detection: A Proof of Concept," acsac, pp.255, 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '03), 2003