Anomaly Detection Model Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique to Detect Covert Communication in Wireless Sensor Network
Covert channel in the form of insider threat/attack is prominent in posing threats to small scale networks. In recent years, such attacks are launched on Wireless Sensor Network in the form of Covert communication. Identifying covert attacks and malicious behavior of covert channels
are very trivial and hard to detect. Many security solutions proposed for such attacks are insufficient. These covert attacks utilize the security flaws and vulnerabilities to drop back door agent to intrude the system and to execute all possible payloads and vulnerabilities to gain information
and access to the resource. Typical cryptographic and authentication schemes fail against these attacks. To overcome the above stated problem, a novel methodology to detect the covert attacks using Multivariate Correlation Analysis (MCA) techniques and Mahalanobis distance is proposed. The
channel capacity and critical attack detection are also analyzed using the proposed method. The defending approach is experimentally tested and all the statistics are analyzed, correlated and classified using Massive Online Analysis (MOA) framework to examine the effectiveness of the proposed
model.
Keywords: Covert Channels; MOA; Mahalanobis Distance; Multilevel Correlation Analysis
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CEG, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India 2: Computer Centre, A.C Tech, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India
Publication date: 01 August 2016
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