Abstract:
We are living in the time of data innovation, where every IT setup, office, home and
client needs to impart and share data. This requirement for correspondence and sharing of data
has resulted in an exponential increase in number and size of computer systems. These systems
are utilized to share data both inside and outside the IT setup. With the noteworthy increment in
number of cyber assaults, there are various protective applications accessible in the market to
identify and deal with these assaults. These incorporate Firewalls, IDS and IPS. These
frameworks suits well to financially stable setups but they are pricy and beyond the access for
financially constraint enterprise IT setups. The installation, maintenance and power costs of these
security systems are beyond the capacity of a small and medium sized organization as they are
facing difficulties in detecting and managing ever increasing network attacks.
To address this problem, this research proposes a cost and power efficient security
incident and event management system for small and medium organizations using Raspberry pi
computers. Raspberry pi is cheap microcomputer and has low cost and power consumption and
have no installation, infrastructure and maintenance requirements. Such hardware can easily be
afforded by the user sitting at home or in small and medium size IT setups.
Once installed on local area network, solution will be able to capture and analyze
network traffic against commonly known man in middle attacks to log any malicious activity for
better understanding of network administrator with minimum cost in terms of power and
maintenance.
