Raspberry Pi as an Intrusion Detection System, a Honeypot and a Packet Analyzer

Abstract

With cybercrimes and attacks on the rise, security is a basic requirement, as well as a necessity, in today's world. As any type of intercommunication and storage of data on the internet is becoming precarious, it becomes extremely important to keep our home network well updated in terms of security, minimize loop holes and ensure data integrity and incorruptibility. It is now extremely important that we protect and secure our home networks and devices from cyber-attacks. Intrusion Detection Systems and Honeypots if implemented correctly can prove to be efficient solutions. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a Raspberry Pi module running an IDS or Intrusion Detection System, a packet analyzer and a decoy server, called honeypot, for complete network monitoring and security.