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An '''Application Protocol-based Intrusion Detection System (APIDS)''', is a special category of an [[Intrusion detection system|Intrusion-Detection System]], and focuses its monitoring and analysis on sprific application protocol or protocols in use by the computing system.

An '''application protocol-based intrusion detection system''' ('''APIDS''') is an [[intrusion detection system]] that focuses its monitoring and analysis on a specific application [[protocol (computing)|protocol]] or protocols in use by the computing system.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-01 |title=6 Types of Intrusion Detection System |url=https://internationalsecurityjournal.com/types-of-intrusion-detection-system/ |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=internationalsecurityjournal.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Overview ==

An APIDS will monitor the dynamic behavior and [[state (computer science)|state]] of the protocol and will typically consistsconsist of a system or agent that would typically sit between a [[process (computing)|process]], or group of [[server (computing)|server]]s, [[System Monitoring|monitoring]] and analyzing the application protocol between two connected devices.

that would typically sit between a process, or group of servers, monitoring and analysing the application protocol between two connected devices.

A typical place for an APIDS would be between a [[web server]] withand the [[database management system]], monitoring the [[SQL]] protocol specific to the [[middleware]]/[[business- logic]] as it transactsinteracts with the [[database]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-19 |title=What is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS)? {{!}} IBM |url=https://www.ibm.com/topics/intrusion-detection-system |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=www.ibm.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

=== Monitoring dynamic behavior ===

AsAt a basic level an APIDS would look for, and enforce, the correct (legal) use of the protocol.

However at a more advanced level the APIDS can learn, be taught or even reduce what itis often an infinite protocol set, to an acceptable understanding of the sub-set[[subset]] of that application protocol that is used by the application being monitored/protected.

Thus, an APIDS, correctly configured, will allow an application to be "fingerprinted[[fingerprint]]ed", thus should that application be subverted or changed, so will the fingerprint change.

==See also==

* [[Intrusion detection system]] (IDS)

* [[Application firewall|Web application firewall (WAF)]]

* [[network intrusion detection system|Network Intrusion Detection System]]

* [[Host-based intrusion detection system]]

* [[Protocol-based intrusion detection System|Protocol-based Intrusion Detection System]]

* [[Tripwire (software)]] - a pioneering HIDS

* [[Trusted Computing Group]]

* [[Trusted platform module]]

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