Development of a network intrusion detection system (NIDS) for smartphones

Smartphones are emerging as a type of mobile device which provides “all-in-one” convenience by integrating traditional mobile phone functionality and the functionality of a handheld computer. Users rely on their smartphones for private and business activities such as web browsing, checking emails...

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Main Author: Muhammad Raafiq Mohd Raffi
Other Authors: Chan Chee Keong
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75262
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description Smartphones are emerging as a type of mobile device which provides “all-in-one” convenience by integrating traditional mobile phone functionality and the functionality of a handheld computer. Users rely on their smartphones for private and business activities such as web browsing, checking emails and online banking which makes them prime targets for attackers to carry out malicious activities. This brings forth the importance of employing similar protection measures used on computers for smartphones. A Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) monitors and detects any malicious activity on a network. Due to smartphones having access to multitudes of networks, establishing a physical NIDS at each access point is ineffective due to the cost and time to setup and maintain. In this paper, a framework for a NIDS for smartphones is proposed using cloud technology and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology. The VPN server on the cloud machine acts a common access point for the network traffic of connected smartphones to flow through which enables the NIDS to monitor the network. This allows smartphones to utilize the NIDS in the form of a Software as a Service (SaaS) regardless of location. Several network attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) are performed to test the effectiveness of the framework. The results demonstrated the feasibility of the framework with the NIDS performing accurately and real-time attacks being detected successfully.
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spelling ntu-10356/752622023-07-07T17:04:59Z Development of a network intrusion detection system (NIDS) for smartphones Muhammad Raafiq Mohd Raffi Chan Chee Keong School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering DRNTU::Engineering Smartphones are emerging as a type of mobile device which provides “all-in-one” convenience by integrating traditional mobile phone functionality and the functionality of a handheld computer. Users rely on their smartphones for private and business activities such as web browsing, checking emails and online banking which makes them prime targets for attackers to carry out malicious activities. This brings forth the importance of employing similar protection measures used on computers for smartphones. A Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) monitors and detects any malicious activity on a network. Due to smartphones having access to multitudes of networks, establishing a physical NIDS at each access point is ineffective due to the cost and time to setup and maintain. In this paper, a framework for a NIDS for smartphones is proposed using cloud technology and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology. The VPN server on the cloud machine acts a common access point for the network traffic of connected smartphones to flow through which enables the NIDS to monitor the network. This allows smartphones to utilize the NIDS in the form of a Software as a Service (SaaS) regardless of location. Several network attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) are performed to test the effectiveness of the framework. The results demonstrated the feasibility of the framework with the NIDS performing accurately and real-time attacks being detected successfully. Bachelor of Engineering 2018-05-30T06:48:27Z 2018-05-30T06:48:27Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75262 en Nanyang Technological University 44 application/pdf
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