This thesis describes the development of a lightweight Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) built using open-source tools. The system identifies five common types of attacks—TCP SYN, UDP, and ICMP floods, port scans, and DNS amplification—and logs them to a database while optionally applying automatic IP blocking. The goal was to design an educational and extendable security prototype demonstrating how open technologies can be combined into a functional real-time network defense system.
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