International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Authentication is a method which validates users' identity prior to permitting them to access the web services. To enhance the security of web services, providers follow varieties of authentication methods to restrict malicious users from accessing the services. This paper proposes a new authentication method which claims user’s identity by analyzing web server log files which includes the details of requesting user’s IP address, username, password, date and time of request, status code, URL etc., and checks IP address spoofing using ingress packet filtering method. This paper also analyses the resultant data and performance of the proposed work.