Design and Implementation of an Intrusion Prevention System Inspired Immune Systems

In view of the recent advances of communication and information technology along with the growing need for online networking, computer security has become a challenge to almost all the studies that have been carried out in this research axis. So far, various tools and mechanisms have been developed in order to guarantee a safety level up to the requirements of modern life. Among these, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) tend to locate activities or abnormal behaviors suspect to be detrimental to the correct operation of the system. In this respect, this work targets the design and the realization of an IDPS inspired from natural immune systems. The immune systems have aroused the interest of researchers in the intrusion detection field, taking into account the similarities of NIS (Natural Immune System) and IDPS objectives. Within the Framework of this work, we conceived an IDPS inspired from natural immune system and implemented by using a directed approach. A platform was developed and tests were carried out in order to assess our system performances.