E-shield: Detection and prevention of website attacks

As Internet usage is growing daily the world is coming closer making it a smaller place to live for its users. However, it has also managed to create problems for people because of the increase in cyber-crimes. So there is a need for monitoring and analyzing both user and system activities and thus tracking as well as blocking the malware is a must. This is where intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) comes into the picture. IDS and IPS have a substantial societal impact on reducing the number of cyber-crimes and providing a platform to facilitate basic security amenities for small scale firms and budding entrepreneurs. The majority of intrusion prevention systems use the detection methods which include Signature-based, Statistical anomaly-based and Honeypot-based. Using these detection methods, the malware is detected, and then further actions are taken to block the malware. IPS techniques differ in how they scan the data streams to detect a threat or intrusion. Data capture and data control are used by the research community to study issues in network security, such as Internet worms, spam control, and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. In this paper, we will be focusing on prevention from the attacks.