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Welcome to the SPANIDS web page at the University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

The SPANIDS project is developing a scalable architecture for real-time intrusion detection on high-speed networks. We are developing techniques that exploit concurrency in network traffic to distribute high-bandwidth network streams across several sensors to significantly improve the capabilities of existing NIDS systems. We are currently in the process of designing and implementing a prototype system built from off-the-shelf hardware and open source software that will demonstrate the scalability and flexibility of our approach.

5/19/2005: The SPANIDS prototype system is operational.

The prototype consists of a custum FPGA board implementing the load balancer and 16 dual-processor Opteron nodes running Snort. Pictures of the system are available here. We are currently in the process of testing and characterizing the system.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ANI02-31535. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Additional funding is provided by a Faculty Research Grant from the University of Notre Dame Graduate School.
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Last updated: 05/19/2005.