Comparative Study of Intrusion Detection Systems against Mainstream Network Sniffing Tools
Authors: Don Africa, Aaron , Felimar Torrizo, Lorwin 
Published: July 2024

As the world embraces a technological revolution on how everyday devices are connected to the internet, users provide sensitive information using the internet which is broken down and distributed as packets throughout the network. Packet sniffers tap to these packets, capable of potentially compromising security and privacy of unsuspecting users. This study aims to put into the test some well-known Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and observe how they fare against popular packet-sniffing tools such as Wireshark and tcpdump. The varied sniffing methods and techniques from various sniffing tools will provide an evaluation of performance of the intrusion detection systems.[1] Â  Ansari, S., Rajeev, S. & Chandrashekar, H. Packet Sniffing: A brief introduction. Potentials IEEE, Vol. 21 (5), (2002), pp. 17-19.[2] Â  Chomsiri, T. Sniffing packets on LAN without ARP spoofing. Â IEEE in Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology ICCIT'08. 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