Improving and Maintaining Network Security Using MD5 Algorithm

Networking devices and intrusion detection systems are capable of generating large volumes of audit information. This information should be considered sensitive. Privacy concerns must also be considered, as there are many legal and ethical issues with maintaining these types of data sets. Until now, little attention has been paid to protecting these data sets from attackers, both internal and external. While advances in computer and communications technology have made the network everywhere, they have also rendered networked systems vulnerable to malicious attacks orchestrated from a distance. These attacks, usually called cracker attacks or intrusions, start with crackers infiltrating a network through a vulnerable host and then going on to launch further attacks. Crackers depend on increasingly sophisticated techniques like using distributed attack sources. On the other hand, software that guards against them remains rooted in traditional centralized techniques, presenting an easily targetable single point of failure. With the free flow of routing data and the high availability of computer resources, possible threats to the networks can result in loss of privacy and in malicious use of information or resources that can eventually lead to large monetary losses. By applying MD5 an algorithm, which plays a major role network security and infrastructures built-in security constraints, are monitored properly.