{"title":"Greynets: a definition and evaluation of sparsely populated darknets","authors":"W. Harrop, G. Armitage","doi":"10.1145/1080173.1080177","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Darknets are often proposed to monitor for anomalous, externally sourced traffic, and require large, contiguous blocks of unused IP addresses - not always feasible for enterprise network operators. We introduce and evaluate the Greynet - a region of IP address space that is sparsely populated with 'darknet' addresses interspersed with active (or 'lit') IP addresses. Based on a small sample of traffic collected within a university campus network we saw that relatively sparse greynets can achieve useful levels of network scan detection.","PeriodicalId":216113,"journal":{"name":"Annual ACM Workshop on Mining Network Data","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annual ACM Workshop on Mining Network Data","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1080173.1080177","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
Abstract
Darknets are often proposed to monitor for anomalous, externally sourced traffic, and require large, contiguous blocks of unused IP addresses - not always feasible for enterprise network operators. We introduce and evaluate the Greynet - a region of IP address space that is sparsely populated with 'darknet' addresses interspersed with active (or 'lit') IP addresses. Based on a small sample of traffic collected within a university campus network we saw that relatively sparse greynets can achieve useful levels of network scan detection.