Title
Real-time GPU-based timing channel detection using entropy.
Abstract
As line rates continue to grow, network security applications such as covert timing channel (CTC) detection must utilize new techniques for processing network flows in order to protect critical enterprise networks. GPU-based packet processing provides one means of scaling the detection of CTCs and other anomalies in network flows. In this paper, we implement a GPU-based detection tool, capable of detecting model-based covert timing channels (MBCTCs). The GPU's ability to process a large number of packets in parallel enables more complex detection tests, such as the corrected conditional entropy (CCE) test-a modified version of the conditional entropy measurement, which has a variety of applications outside of covert channel detection. In our experiments, we evaluate the CCE test's true and false positive detection rates, as well as the time required to perform the test on the GPU. Our results demonstrate that GPU packet processing can be applied successfully to perform real-time CTC detection at near 10 Gbps with high accuracy.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security
Flow network,Telecommunications network,Computer science,Computer security,Network packet,Network security,Covert channel,Communication channel,Real-time computing,Packet processing,Conditional entropy
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2474-025X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ross K. Gegan100.68
Vishal Ahuja2253.76
John D. Owens33263298.85
Dipak Ghosal42848163.40