Exploiting Stateful Inspection of Network Security in Reconfigurable Hardware

One of the most important areas of a network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), stateful inspection, is described in this paper. The paper presents a novel reconfigurable hardware architecture implementing TCP stateful inspection used in NIDS. This is to achieve a more efficient and faster network intrusion detection system as todays' NIDSs show inefficiency and even fail to perform while encountering the faster Internet. The performance of the NIDS described is expected to obtain a throughput of 3.0 Gbps.