Towards Accelerating Intrusion Detection Operations at the Edge Network usin...

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Towards Accelerating Intrusion Detection

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Operations at the Edge Network using FPGAs

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7 x- y, |8 h; Y. \9 U1 Z5 e In the current paper, we present our work towards
accelerating intrusion detection operations at the edge network
: m$ q* J* K1 B3 U9 fusing FPGAs. Cloud computing and network function
) {9 ~9 @/ ^0 ]. n0 jvirtualization have led to a new appealing paradigm for service
1 Y; A3 W3 S. x1 h( K* }delivery and management. Unfortunately, this paradigm fails
to correctly support IoT applications and services that seek
, L. n( f: N% Dbetter communication platforms. Security as a Service can also
) T, g# N) {/ b' u5 c- Qbe seen as a cloud-based model that needs to be accommodated
/ x6 W) Q9 ~9 i3 d" Y+ Bto fulfill these services requirements. Again, one of the main
4 s" t; n3 q+ p) b5 o! f+ Bissues to be addressed in this context is how to improve the
performance of such systems or services in order to make them
capable of coping with the huge amount of data while
remaining reliable. A potential solution is the FPGA based
edge computing, which is a powerful combination offering
: B# @( r. s& @3 dFPGA acceleration capabilities together with edge and fog
: o- J& G& V3 _5 d% k5 g1 d* `3 x/ gbenefits. Indeed, our work focusses on devising an Intrusion
Prevention architecture called FORTISEC (40SEC), that is
meant to operate in a completely softwarized as well as in an
1 |" U9 d9 Y" y) M5 S9 uFPGA mode. Thereby, we present suitable algorithms, design
principles and well defined components towards the
implementation of accelerated intrusion prevention on the
  e0 b4 [; Q% E1 oedge. We also present a testbed being utilized for the
implementation of 40SEC and its performance testing.


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