Mitacs and Solana Networks Inc have approved funding of the research project ‘Oblivious IDS using Homomorphic Encryption’ at $15K.
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is used to protect internal networks of companies and organizations against malicious activities and policy violations. These systems are typically under the full control of the local system administrator. In this project, we propose to use Homomorphic Encryption techniques to design and implement an Intrusion Detection System that can run as a service on the cloud. In this model, the cloud system administrator who runs and operates the IDS does so while being completely oblivious to the underlying policies and matching rules.