Home Intrusion Detection System

My project was to develop an Intrusion Detection System for home networks. The goal of this Home Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is to provide network security in home and personal networks. The revolution of Internet of Things (IoT) has increased the number of connected devices for residential use. Unfortunately, there has not been a corresponding increase in defense mechanisms to address the vulnerabilities introduced by these IoT devices in the home or local networks. The Home Intrusion Detection System provides insight to the traffic in a home network. Typically, there are many devices connected to a single router and home network. These range from end-user devices such as computes, tablets and phones, to IoT devices such as televisions, thermostats, alarm systems, appliances and so on. The Home IDS will provide an additional layer of protection to find intruders and alert the homeowner by analyzing the home network traffic to identify potentially compromised or vulnerable devices. The classic main line of defense in home networks has been antivirus applications installed on each personal computer. With the increase of connectivity with all the devices connected to the same internal network such as game consoles, security cameras to baby monitors, more attack surfaces have appeared. Current Intrusion Detection Systems in the industry are designed to be run by network professionals. The Home IDS application’s goal is to target a wider audience for everyday user. Future plans are to continue development based on user feedback and statistical data to develop an intelligent and dynamic growing set of rules to bring monitoring capabilities of the unnoticed traffic to the users. Bringing an intelligent set growing set of rules to target new and most common exploits from a wide variety of sources designed to penetrate a home network.