A Survey on Intrusion Detection in Multitier Web Applications Using DoubleGuard

Abstract

The use of internet services & its applications in daily life are increase in large amount. This enables the communication and management of personal information. This results the increase in applications & data complexity. So web services run toward the multi-tiered design in which web server act as front end and data server or file server act as back end. There are risks of personal data gets hacked hence it need to provide more security to both web server and database server. This paper provides survey of several methods for intrusion detection. From all these methods, doubleguard intrusion detection system is more efficient for detecting and preventing attacks. Doubleguard,an IDS system which models network performance of user sessions across both front-end web server and back end database server. The system quantifies the detection accuracy when system attempt to model static and dynamic web requests. Proposed system built a well-correlated model for static websites and detects and prevents different types of attacks.
Key Words: Multitier Web Application, Intrusion Detection System, Anomaly Detection, Static website, Attacks.