Proposed architecture for intrusion detection system for software as a service in cloud computing environment

The purpose of this paper is to propose an architecture for intrusion detection based on Software as a Service (SaaS) called Software as a Service Intrusion Detection Services (SaaSIDS) in a cloud environment. Therefore, this research focusing on developing Software As A Service IDS (SaaSIDS) where the traffic at different points of the network is sniffed and the interested packets would be transferred to the SaaSIDS for further inspection. The main engine of SaaSIDS is the hybrid analysis engine where the signature based engine and anomaly based engine which using artificial immune system will work in parallel. The SaaSIDS is able to identify malicious activity and would generate appropriate alerts and notification accordingly