Abstract
Fingerprinting is a process of identifying the remote network devices and services running on the devices, including operating systems (OS) of the devices, and hosts running different OSs. Several research proposals and commercial products are available in the market to defeat fingerprinting. However, they have performance limitations and expose themselves to attackers. In this paper, we utilize some real-time fault-tolerance concepts (viz. real-time/dynamic, detection/locating, confinement/localizing and masking/decoy) to propose a plug-and-play adaptive middleware architecture called Secure Dynamic Middleware (SDMw) with a view to defeat attackers fingerprinting the network, without exposing itself to the attackers. We verify that the proposed scheme works seamlessly and requires zero-configuration at the client side.
Highlights
The Internet has become all too pervasive in our modern society
We proposed a novel idea to misguide an attacker during the fingerprinting process
Our proposed system has several advantages compared with similar models or systems that attempt to prevent fingerprinting by hackers: 1. Systems that try to defeat fingerprinting or hide the network from Network Mapper (NMAP) expose themselves to fingerprinting
Summary
The Internet has become all too pervasive in our modern society. It has come to dominate our lives as never before. More bits of data flow across the Internet than there are grains of sands on all the beaches in the world. According to Cisco [1], the total global Internet traffic for 2011 was approximately 8.4 × 1018 bits per day. When it comes to the network topology, new domains are added to the Internet almost every day. OS fingerprinting and port scanning are forerunners for any attackers intruding a network. These two sections provide a strong motivation for our proposal.
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