MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Immunology and Intrusion Detection
Stephanie Forrest
University of New Mexico, Visiting MIT EECS and AI Laboratory
Monday, March 3, 1997
4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
Natural immune systems are sophisticated information processors. They
learn to recognize relevant patterns, they remember patterns that have
been seen previously, and they use combinatorics to construct pattern
detectors efficiently. Further, the individual cells and molecules
that comprise the immune system are distributed throughout our bodies,
encoding and controlling the system in parallel with no central
control mechanism.
The talk will describe a project that is incorporating principles and
mechanisms from immunology into computer security. It will emphasize
my current work on a lightweight intrusion-detection system for
networked computers. In this system normal behavior is defined by
short-range correlations in a process's system calls---a much simpler
approach than that used previously. Initial experiments suggest that
the definition is stable during normal behavior and that it is
sensitive to several common intrusions.
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