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6 Conclusions

We have presented Piranha_Audit, a systematic solution to the persistent problems of securing and improving the Audit and Logging capabilities, that prevents a broad class of buffer overflow security attacks from succeeding.

Its most important futures are that it denies the deletion/modification of protected files even in a root compromised situation; with TCSEC layout, the system administrator has a powerful method to investigate; intrusion detection is critical in today's complex enterprises. Attempting to manually review audit trails is hopelessly time-consuming and a losing battle given the number of systems and different types of audit trails. Today we need automated intrusion detection tools. Digitals finger print have produced with MD5 [6] algorithm, one of the best in its area.

All this with little performances degradation how is showed in the following figure.

Figure 1: Performances.



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Table 7: Performance keywords
Event Keywords
find | grep lyx 1
Pirannha Audit compile process 2
latex work.tex 3
Starting an X session 4
netscape 5
lyx 6
gimp 7
Linux Boot 8



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2000-08-07