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August 21-22, 2018 Paris, France
International conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & IoT
AI & IoT 2018 | August 21-22, 2018
Advances in Robotics & Automation | ISSN : 2168-9695
Volume 7
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Tarek Saadawi, Adv Robot Autom 2018, Volume:7
DOI: 10.4172/2168-9695-C2-016
Artificial immune system based approach to cyber-attack detection
C
yber attacks have been increaing at an alarming rate. For example, the attack on Dyn
company on October, 2016 have resulted in the cutoff of internet services in the North
East of the USA. The Dyn company is an organization that controls many of the domain
name servers that give service American domains. This widely successful attack utilized
the infamous Mirai – a nasty piece of malware that powers an extensive botnet largely
populated by internet of things (IoT) devices. Advancements in internet of things (IoT),
wireless, advanced robotics, intelligent agents, cloud computing and other technologies, as
well as reliance on 3rd party commercial off-the-shelf software will also increase the cyber-
attack surface in systems and networks. Like the ability of the human immune system to
detect all infections and how the human body can be related to the complex network of
interconnected systems that exist today, our proposal takes a biological approach to solving
the network intrusion detection problem. Our proposed bio-inspired system for network
intrusion detection makes use of the models that exist in immunology which has been
abstracted to an area under artificial intelligence known as artificial immune system (AIS).
The proposed system will be a combination of the immunology-developed theory of self-
nonself (SNS) and danger theory (DT). The proposed system stems from our successful
application of SNS and DT respectively to the detection of cyber attacks that originate from
external networks. Our proposed system will be detecting cyber-attacks that originate from
both inside and outside of a communication network.
Biography
Tarek Saadawi is a Professor and Director of the Center of Information Networking and Telecommunications, City
University of New York, City College (CUNY/CCNY). He received his BSc and MSc degrees from Cairo University
Egypt in 1973 and 1975 respectively and the PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980. He is
Co-Editor of the book “Cyber Infrastructure Protection,” Strategic Study Institute, volume 1, May 2011, and Volume
2, August 2013, and Co-Author of the book, “Fundamentals of Telecommunication Network”. His current research
interests are intrusion detection systems and cyber security.
saaadawi@ccny.cuny.eduTarek Saadawi
City University of New York, USA