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

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Towards Accelerating Intrusion Detection

Operations at the Edge Network using FPGAs

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* C& P# ^, m7 H" I4 a' ?) u) x* _ In the current paper, we present our work towards
: _# g6 D* E* w" @9 @" V  Naccelerating intrusion detection operations at the edge network
using FPGAs. Cloud computing and network function
0 {7 j7 U) B& h6 I+ ?  Uvirtualization have led to a new appealing paradigm for service
delivery and management. Unfortunately, this paradigm fails
' S( o5 U4 w. T$ Zto correctly support IoT applications and services that seek
3 R  z5 d5 P/ l7 d' Pbetter communication platforms. Security as a Service can also
6 e; z% R& w4 w" F: gbe seen as a cloud-based model that needs to be accommodated
to fulfill these services requirements. Again, one of the main
7 o" z# ?( c' E$ g3 Missues to be addressed in this context is how to improve the
1 Q1 V+ r$ l3 z+ ]performance of such systems or services in order to make them
capable of coping with the huge amount of data while
4 I. c1 u" R6 ]1 E: w3 `4 `remaining reliable. A potential solution is the FPGA based
edge computing, which is a powerful combination offering
FPGA acceleration capabilities together with edge and fog
' C" A, p$ a4 D/ m# j2 T: B8 q8 M3 Qbenefits. Indeed, our work focusses on devising an Intrusion
Prevention architecture called FORTISEC (40SEC), that is
. h8 Q% @1 a, i7 }  ?! d, Q8 Zmeant to operate in a completely softwarized as well as in an
6 h; K! ]6 R+ H  a. GFPGA mode. Thereby, we present suitable algorithms, design
principles and well defined components towards the
implementation of accelerated intrusion prevention on the
edge. We also present a testbed being utilized for the
implementation of 40SEC and its performance testing.
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