Exploiting reconfigurable hardware for network security

Author

Li, Shaomeng ; Torresen, Jim ; Soraasen, Oddvar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 April 2003

Firstpage

292

Lastpage

293

Abstract

One type of network security strategy is using an intrusion detection system (IDS). We are implementing an IDS in FPGA-based (Field Programmable Gate Array) reconfigurable hardware. This is to achieve higher speed and more efficient performance of network security, as networks develop very fast with consequently more demanding constraints. This study provides novel hardware architectures for an IDS system which should be able to monitor networks with a speed up to 2.68 Gbps.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; safety systems; security of data; string matching; system monitoring; ASIC; FPGA-based hardware; IDS system; Intrusion detection system; application specific integrated circuit; dynamically reconfigurable logic; field programmable gate array; network monitoring; network performance; network security; reconfigurable hardware; security architecture; string matching; Application specific integrated circuits; Concurrent computing; Engines; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Information security; Intrusion detection; Protocols; Reconfigurable logic; Software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2003. FCCM 2003. 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1979-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPGA.2003.1227276

Filename

1227276