Université de Fribourg

Immune system based intrusion detection system

Ehret, Christoph ; Ultes-Nitsche, Ulrich

In: Innovative Minds (Information Systems Security Association - ISSA 2008), Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2008, 2008, p. -

The threats and intrusions in IT systems can basically be compared to human diseases with the difference that the human body has an effective way to deal with them, what still need to be designed for IT systems. The human immune system (HIS) can detect and defend against yet unseen intruders, is distributed, adaptive and multilayered to name only a few of its features. Our immune system...