Network Security Applications

AU-KBC Research Centre

Network Security Applications

This project team is developing security suites for the enterprise network and a typical intranet. The application monitors the network with sniffers and generates customised log reports for the network traffic under analysis. The objectives are to capture the network status during a given period of time with the service point of view, monitoring for vulnerabilities and identifying intruders. The application includes an administrative perspective and to generate performance of the network as a whole.

A customised sniffer suite will administer ethernet packets in the network. Customisation shall be addressed based on the need of the enterprise and the business rules, to identify and extract information on relevant data. A customisable log analyser interfaces with the sniffer application and generates a variety of  reports. This analyser can be configured to generate alert messages,  periodic reporting on a priority basis, and a variety of notifications. Current improvements include sniffers reach to wider networks and enhance the activity log mechanism. This suite is very useful for administrators monitoring for vulnerabilities in the network,  for law enforcement agencies enforcing the law, protecting the enterprise resources using service alert calls on unknown member entry / intruder attacks and others. This is piloted at several government agencies in India.

This application generates the status of a network in a given instant of time. This will monitor and service ecommerce and network appliances in tasks like status of a web server, database server, mail server etc. This can monitor with the performance details of a router, switch, gateway etc as well. This application  will generate the status of a service or of a network entity for a specified period of time as well.

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