ACARM (Alert Correlation, Assessment and Reaction Module) is an open source intrusion detection system. It was developed as a part of POSITIF project between 2004 and 2007. It was written as a practical proof of concept, presented in the article.[1]

ACARM
Original author(s)Bartłomiej Balcerek
Bartosz Szurgot
Wojciech Waga
Marcin Wojtkiewicz
Developer(s)WCSS
Initial release2008.04.01
Final release
0.1.0 / October 5, 2009 (2009-10-05)
Written inJava
Operating systemcross-platform
SuccessorACARM-ng
TypeIntrusion-detection system
LicenseGPL
Websitehttp://www.acarm.wcss.wroc.pl (no longer available for download)

Filters architecture edit

The following image shows chain-like architecture for filters, as used in the system.

 

Each alert enters each filter, stays there for a specified amount of time and proceeds further in chain. Main issue with such an approach is that alter can be reported only after its processing is done, which in turn takes at least few minutes.

Notes edit

Project is no longer maintained. It has been replaced with new, plug-in-based ACARM-ng.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Valeur, F.; Vigna, G.; Kruegel, C.; Kemmerer, R.A. (2004). "Comprehensive approach to intrusion detection alert correlation". IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 1 (3): 146–169. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.60.6872. doi:10.1109/TDSC.2004.21. S2CID 2603627.