Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Production Supervision in Small Businesses Based on Raspberry Pi and Snort

Abstract

A computer security system is a set of processes that are highly dependent on information technology (IT) personnel focused on cyber security, as companies can become victims of hackers and cyber criminals, thus losing the trust of the environment of production, telecommuting and consequently also losing business confidence. A cyber analyst is very important in the staff of any company, since he will implement security solutions, however, the collaboration of one of these specialists in a small company is an additional cost in terms of staff salary and in the acquisition of tools it needs. It is for this reason that the development of an intrusion detection and prevention system begins, which will not require a greater investment in the budget of small companies, this being a solid security stack that allows registration, visibility and automatic response to Possible threats on the network, of course, can be remotely managed and analyzed by a specialist, the annual cost of the full service is approximately $209 USD. The system is based on Raspberry Pi hardware and free Ubuntu Server software as the operating system and Snort as the intrusion detection and prevention system.