Analysis And Design Of An Internet Information Audit System Based On Linux

As the widespread use of computers continue to grow in most of the fields, people is going to depend more and more on computer system to use and transfer information. After entering the 21st century, the use of Internet is growing very fast and our life and work style is going to rely more and more on the Internet. At the same time, while brings convenience to us in many aspects; it also gives us a lot of troubles. It is more difficult to protect our personal privacy, company confidential information, than in the age of'paper and pencil'. But current network security products like firewall and IDS, can only use to protect the organization to defend attack from outside itself, they can not find the intentional person inside the organization to send confidential information outside. So in recent years, people realize that an Internet Information Audit System is worth of research and development.Internet Information Audit System, as its name implies, is used to record and analyze all the important information flow in the Network, and to alarm end user when find some harmful information flows. And it can provide useful evidence to the Police when that is needed. Currently the desired customer of this system includes the government, army, police and high-tech companies. In this kind of organization, the revealing of confidential information will cause great profit lose or bad social influence.