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Two State-based Approaches to Program-based anomaly detection
C C Michael
RST Research
USA
This paper describes two recently developed intrusion detection algorithms, and gives experimental results on their performance. The algorithms detect anomalies in execution audit data. One is a simply constructed finite-state machine, and the other monitors statistical deviations from normal program behavior. The performance of these algorithms is evaluated as a function of the amount of available training data, and they are compared to the well-known intrusion detection technique of looking for novel n-grams in computer audit data.