Title :
The Kerf toolkit for intrusion analysis
Author :
Aslam, Javed ; Bratus, Sergey ; Kotz, David ; Peterson, Ron ; Rus, Daniela ; Tofel, Brett
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH, USA
Abstract :
We consider the problem of intrusion analysis and present the Kerf toolkit, whose purpose is to provide an efficient and flexible infrastructure for the analysis of attacks. The Kerf toolkit includes a mechanism for securely recording host and network logging information for a network of workstations, a domain-specific language for querying this stored data, and an interface for viewing the results of such a query, providing feedback on these results, and generating new queries in an iterative fashion. We describe the architecture of Kerf in detail, present examples to demonstrate the power of our query language, and discuss the performance of our implementation of this system.
Keywords :
computer crime; data visualisation; query languages; query processing; system monitoring; workstation clusters; Kerf toolkit; domain-specific query language; graphical interface; host information; information recording; intrusion analysis; network logging information; query processing; Automatic testing; Computer science; Database languages; Domain specific languages; Educational institutions; Feedback; Indexing; Spatial databases; System testing; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Information Assurance Workshop, 2003. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7808-3
DOI :
10.1109/SMCSIA.2003.1232441
