Intrusion Protection against SQL Injection Attacks Using a Reverse Proxy

In this era where Internet has captured the world, level of security that this Internet provides has not grown as fast as the Internet application. Internet has eased the life of human in numerous ways, but the drawbacks like the intrusions that are attached with the Internet applications sustains the growth of these applications. One such intrusion is the SQL Injection attacks (SQLIA). Since SQLIA contributes 25% of the total Internet attacks, much research is being carried out in this area. In this paper we propose a method to detect the SQL injection. We use a Reverse proxy and MD5 algorithm to check out SQL injection in user input. Using grammar expressions rules we check for SQL injection in URL’s. This system has been tested on standard test bed applications and our work has shown significant improvement detecting and curbing the SQLIA.