A rule based intrusion detection system to identify vindictive web spider

Advancement of technology era made information easily available over internet which needs to be adequately protected or it may be compromised is known as an information or security breach. Software known as “web spider” is used to discover openly available web pages. Spider glances at web pages and follow links on those pages to retrieve information from web. Information confidentiality needs to be maintained for web spider not behaving normally, so we proposed a rule based intrusion detection system to identify vindictive web spider.