Title :
Self-nonself discrimination in a computer
Author :
Forrest, Stephanie ; Perelson, Alan S. ; Allen, Lawrence ; Cherukuri, Rajesh
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
The problem of protecting computer systems can be viewed generally as the problem of learning to distinguish self from other. The authors describe a method for change detection which is based on the generation of T cells in the immune system. Mathematical analysis reveals computational costs of the system, and preliminary experiments illustrate how the method might be applied to the problem of computer viruses
Keywords :
computer viruses; security of data; change detection; computational costs; computer systems; computer viruses; immune system; protection; self-nonself discrimination; Authentication; Change detection algorithms; Computer science; Computer security; Computer viruses; Costs; Detectors; Immune system; Mathematical analysis; Protection;
Conference_Titel :
Research in Security and Privacy, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Oakland, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5675-1
DOI :
10.1109/RISP.1994.296580
