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

In the current paper, we present our work towards
' v  w% H5 D6 `3 |- ^accelerating intrusion detection operations at the edge network
) U* O% `/ |4 I/ W+ n( Kusing FPGAs. Cloud computing and network function
virtualization have led to a new appealing paradigm for service
1 T! G% y+ v7 S& W0 Zdelivery and management. Unfortunately, this paradigm fails
, R- a) N, c7 S1 c5 @8 g& V; ?0 Vto correctly support IoT applications and services that seek
better communication platforms. Security as a Service can also
: o% g9 f  }- g# n3 Nbe seen as a cloud-based model that needs to be accommodated
to fulfill these services requirements. Again, one of the main
issues 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
$ X$ ]. T+ g0 s. {remaining reliable. A potential solution is the FPGA based
edge computing, which is a powerful combination offering
( V$ N; F: U% _; @  B# v" O, MFPGA acceleration capabilities together with edge and fog
benefits. 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
FPGA mode. Thereby, we present suitable algorithms, design
3 l. w6 \. l# k$ O- Rprinciples and well defined components towards the
8 |. a7 J" |7 K5 z% y' T2 W0 Q# f. cimplementation of accelerated intrusion prevention on the
$ A7 {# [, Z; |% T; l/ Q1 z) Bedge. We also present a testbed being utilized for the
implementation of 40SEC and its performance testing.
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