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Rethinking Hardware Support for Network Analysis and Intrusion Prevention

Abstract: 

The performance pressures on implementing effective network security monitoring are growing fiercely due to rising traffic rates, the need to perform much more sophisticated forms of analysis, the requirement for inline processing, and the collapse of Moore’s law for sequential processing. Given these growing pressures, we argue that it is time to fundamentally rethink the nature of using hardware to support network security analysis. Clearly, to do so we must leverage massively parallel computing elements, as only these can provide the necessary performance. The key, however, is to devise an abstraction of parallel processing that will allow us to expose the parallelism latent in semantically rich, stateful analysis algorithms; and that we can then further compile to hardware platforms with different capabilities.

V. Paxson, International Computer Science Institute

K. Asanović, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S. Dharmapurikar, Nuova Systems

J. Lockwood, Washington University

R. Pang, Princeton University

R. Sommer, International Computer Science Institute

N. Weaver, International Computer Science Institute

BibTeX
@inproceedings {268925,
author = {V. Paxson and K. Asanovi{\'c} and S. Dharmapurikar and J. Lockwood and R. Pang and R. Sommer and N. Weaver},
title = {Rethinking Hardware Support for Network Analysis and Intrusion Prevention },
booktitle = {First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec 06)},
year = {2006},
address = {Vancouver, B.C. Canada},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotsec-06/rethinking-hardware-support-network-analysis-and-intrusion-prevention},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul,
}
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http://usenix.org/events/hotsec06/tech/full_papers/paxson/paxson.pdf
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