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Towards Accelerating Intrusion Detection
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?' m9 J: M: T# c2 W' m4 @- U In the current paper, we present our work towards
3 Q. L4 {9 ?8 a$ n" Saccelerating intrusion detection operations at the edge network " _1 @) K9 ]7 m5 C5 }- M9 y' i
using FPGAs. Cloud computing and network function
# n: D/ A' \# m8 i/ C; Qvirtualization have led to a new appealing paradigm for service ( L. N4 r+ r2 P8 Y2 W9 _1 G* m
delivery and management. Unfortunately, this paradigm fails
" p4 X! e" p+ Z' d9 `; Dto correctly support IoT applications and services that seek
0 W2 _; T$ d: d' K0 w+ a9 q1 N$ Zbetter communication platforms. Security as a Service can also & N `, a6 H5 s! Y5 L
be seen as a cloud-based model that needs to be accommodated
# y# H# N4 F! S! i, D/ _# mto fulfill these services requirements. Again, one of the main
0 ^$ }$ N4 g" G( M3 K! B* d% Kissues to be addressed in this context is how to improve the
% l! E) t$ D' ~0 e; ?2 E3 \! X5 R6 aperformance of such systems or services in order to make them
{9 w4 b1 S4 x0 d5 v( o7 Mcapable of coping with the huge amount of data while & \0 G4 b' a7 w4 F4 r+ I, Y
remaining reliable. A potential solution is the FPGA based : c% E+ o( ?2 L" s+ S' ^
edge computing, which is a powerful combination offering : k2 L7 K/ m+ B
FPGA acceleration capabilities together with edge and fog w9 K8 o8 Y6 a3 a) j& d
benefits. Indeed, our work focusses on devising an Intrusion ( ~% t j, N0 Q) o- L( \, \
Prevention architecture called FORTISEC (40SEC), that is
- D% p4 g" g$ [9 W. c O+ ameant to operate in a completely softwarized as well as in an
2 `+ ?5 Y: f. y, L) GFPGA mode. Thereby, we present suitable algorithms, design
& s6 m9 d8 a5 ~$ q+ P" v5 @principles and well defined components towards the - {7 p! ~" s( Z3 u# F
implementation of accelerated intrusion prevention on the / l" V1 ~' U, W8 w# y# y
edge. We also present a testbed being utilized for the - b' u0 m( j* T4 K0 v2 E
implementation of 40SEC and its performance testing. & d" Y. d) w7 r2 U
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