BlockCSDN: Towards Blockchain-Based Collaborative Intrusion Detection in Software Defined Networking

【Author】 Li, Wenjuan; Wang, Yu; Meng, Weizhi; Li, Jin; Su, Chunhua

【Source】IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS

【影响因子】0.695

【Abstract】To safeguard critical services and assets in a distributed environment, collaborative intrusion detection systems (CIDSs) are usually adopted to share necessary data and information among various nodes, and enhance the detection capability. For simplifying the network management, software defined networking (SDN) is an emerging platform that decouples the controller plane from the data plane. Intuitively, SDN can help lighten the management complexity in CIDSs, and a CIDS can protect the security of SDN. In practical implementation, trust management is an important approach to help identify insider attacks (or malicious nodes) in CIDSs, but the challenge is how to ensure the data integrity when evaluating the reputation of a node. Motivated by the recent development of blockchain technology, in this work, we design BlockCSDN - a framework of blockchain-based collaborative intrusion detection in SDN, and take the challenge-based CIDS as a study. The experimental results under both external and internal attacks indicate that using blockchain technology can benefit the robustness and security of CIDSs and SDN.

【Keywords】collaborative intrusion detection; blockchain technology; software defined networking; insider attack; challenge-based trust management

【发表时间】2022 FEB

【收录时间】2022-02-11

【文献类型】技术主题

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