Prof Aims to Improve Internet Security

ACM Technews reports that University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientist Paul Barford and his colleagues have developed a new approach to detecting network intrusions by focusing on a slight vulnerability in malicious traffic.

Barford's technology is able to be specific and more general simultaneously when detecting and identifying malicious signatures. This has the effect of preventing benign traffic from being labeled malicious, thus reducing the crippling effects of false positives on security systems. Barford also says the technology can use a single signature to detect classes of attacks, a feature not offered by other systems.

For details, see this article in the Wisconsin State Journal.