Abstract
While much recent research concentrates on propagation models, the defence against worms is largely an open problem. Classical containment strategies, based on manual application of traffic filters, will be almost totally ineffective in the wide area since the worms are able to spread at rates that effectively preclude any human-directed reaction. Consequently, developing an automated, flexible and adaptive containment strategy is the most viable way to defeat worm propagation in an acceptable time. As a case in point, we look to natural immune systems, which solve a similar problem, but in a radically different way. Accordingly, we present a cooperative immunisation system inspired in principles and structure by the natural immune system that helps in defending against these types of attacks. Our system automatically detects pathologic traffic conditions due to an infection and informs, according to a cooperative communication principle, all the reachable networked nodes about the ongoing attack, triggering the actions required to their defence. To evaluate our proposal, we formulated a simple worm propagation and containment model, and evaluated our system using numerical solution and sensitivity analysis. Our measurements show that our reaction strategy is sufficiently robust against all the most common malicious agents. We envision that the above solution will be an effective line of defence against more aggressive worms.
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