Cactuz: The modular toolbox for evaluating Intrusion Prevention Systems
2016 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (university diploma), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Intrusion prevention systems are a widely used today to protect the local network from threats on the world wide web by blocking unwanted packets, but still be able to forward desirable traffic. Before placing the intrusion prevention system in a live network, the system can be tested with it capabilities in a test environment.
This paper is about the build of the toolbox "Cactuz", developed with 11 different test sce-narios with the availability to expand. The report contains general information about threats and attacks but also the software and tools included in the build. The result of the build is presented as the toolbox which includes multiple attacks and tests with a user interface. Cac-tuz is evaluated by Snort IPS where the evaluation of each attack is presented and analyzed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016. , p. 27
Keywords [en]
IPS, Intrusion Prevention System, toolbox, Cactuz
National Category
Computer and Information Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-9484Local ID: EXD500OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-9484DiVA, id: diva2:946420
Subject / course
Computer enigeering
Educational program
Nätverksteknik med IT-säkerhet
Supervisors
Examiners
2016-08-172016-07-052018-01-10Bibliographically approved