Towards Blockchained Challenge-Based Collaborative Intrusion Detection

Wenjuan Li, Yu Wang, Jin Li, Man Ho Au

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Abstract

To protect distributed network resources and assets, collaborative intrusion detection systems/networks (CIDSs/CIDNs) have been widely deployed in various organizations with the purpose of detecting any potential threats. While such systems and networks are usually vulnerable to insider attacks, some kinds of trust mechanisms should be integrated in a real-world application. Challenge-based trust mechanisms are one promising solution, which can measure the trustworthiness of a node by sending challenges to other nodes. In the literature, challenge-based CIDNs have proven to be robust against common insider attacks, but it may still be susceptible to advanced insider attacks. How to further improve the robustness of challenge-based CIDNs remains an issue. Motivated by the recently rapid development of blockchains, in this work, we aim to combine these two and provide a blockchained challenge-based CIDN framework. Our evaluation shows that blockchain technology has the potential to enhance the robustness of challenge-based CIDNs in the aspects of trust management (i.e., enhancing the detection of insider nodes) and alarm aggregation (i.e., identifying untruthful inputs).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops - ACNS 2019 Satellite Workshops, SiMLA, Cloud S and P, AIBlock, and AIoTS 2019
EditorsJianying Zhou, Robert Deng, Zhou Li, Suryadipta Majumdar, Weizhi Meng, Lingyu Wang, Kehuan Zhang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages122-139
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783030297282
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2019 - Bogota, Colombia
Duration: 5 Jun 20197 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11605 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2019
Country/TerritoryColombia
CityBogota
Period5/06/197/06/19

Keywords

  • Blockchain technology
  • Challenge-based trust mechanism
  • Collaborative network
  • Insider attack
  • Intrusion detection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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