International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Nowadays the organizations are facing the number of threats every day in the form of viruses and attack etc. Since many different mechanisms were preferred by organizations in the form of intrusion detection and prevention system to protect its organizations from these kinds of attacks. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is considered as a system integrated with intelligent subsystems. In this paper the signature based intrusion detection system is discussed. There are different pattern matching algorithms available to detect intrusion. Brute force and Knuth-Morris-Pratt are the single keyword pattern matching algorithms. If one or more occurrence of pattern present in the input text, then there is an intrusion and the intrusion alarm will be sent. The occurrence of false alarm will be high in intrusion detection. In this paper the string matching algorithm to reduce the percentage of false alarm will be discussed.