Reaching a Consensus on Access Detection by a Decision System

Classification techniques based on Artificial Intelligence are computational tools that have been applied to detection of intrusions (IDS) with encouraging results. They are able to solve problems related to information security in an efficient way. The intrusion detection implies the use of huge amount of information. For this reason heuristic methodologies have been proposed. In this paper, decision trees, Naive Bayes, and supervised classifying systems UCS, are combined to improve the performance of a classifier. In order to validate the system, a scenario based on real data of the NSL-KDD99 dataset is used.Depto. de Arquitectura de Computadores y AutomáticaFac. de InformáticaTRUEMinistry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT) of the Government of the Republic of Ecuadorpu

Predictive Abuse Detection for a PLC Smart Lighting Network Based on Automatically Created Models of Exponential Smoothing

One of the basic elements of a Smart City is the urban infrastructure management system, in particular, systems of intelligent street lighting control. However, for their reliable operation, they require special care for the safety of their critical communication infrastructure. This article presents solutions for the detection of different kinds of abuses in network traffic of Smart Lighting infrastructure, realized by Power Line Communication technology. Both the structure of the examined Smart Lighting network and its elements are described. The article discusses the key security problems which have a direct impact on the correct performance of the Smart Lighting critical infrastructure. In order to detect an anomaly/attack, we proposed the usage of a statistical model to obtain forecasting intervals. Then, we calculated the value of the differences between the forecast in the estimated traffic model and its real variability so as to detect abnormal behavior (which may be symptomatic of an abuse attempt). Due to the possibility of appearance of significant fluctuations in the real network traffic, we proposed a procedure of statistical models update which is based on the criterion of interquartile spacing. The results obtained during the experiments confirmed the effectiveness of the presented misuse detection method

Development of efiicient algorithms for identifying users in computer access

Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática, leída el 26/05/2017. Tesis formato europeo (compendio de artículos)Actualmente los ciberataques son un problema serio y cada vez más frecuente en organizaciones, empresas e instituciones de todo el mundo. Se pueden definir como el acceso, transferencia o manipulación no autorizada de información de un ordenador o centro de datos. Los datos confidenciales en empresas y organizaciones incluyen propiedad intelectual, información financiera, información médica, datos personales de tarjetas de crédito y otros tipos de información dependiendo del negocio y la industria involucrada. En esta tesis se realizan varias contribuciones dentro del campo de Detección de Anomalías (AD), Sistema de Detección de Intrusos (IDS) y Detección de Fugas de Información (DLD). Una de las principales aportaciones común a los tres campos mencionados es el desarrollo de una estructura dinámica de datos para representar el comportamiento real y único de los usuarios, lo que permite que cada uno tenga una huella digital que lo identifica. Otras aportaciones están en la línea de la aplicación de técnicas de inteligencia artificial (IA), tanto en el procesamiento de los datos como en el desarrollo de meta clasificadores (combinación de varias técnicas de IA), por ejemplo: árboles de decisión C4.5 y UCS, máquinas de vectores soporte (SVM), redes neuronales, y técnicas como vecinos cercanos (K-NN), entre otras. Se han aplicado con buenos resultados a la detección de intrusos y han sido validadas con bases de datos públicas como Unix, KDD99, y con una base de datos gubernamental de la república del Ecuador. Dentro del campo de detección de anomalías, se han usado algoritmos bio-inspirados para la identificación de comportamientos anómalos de los usuarios, como los sistemas inmunes artificiales y la selección negativa, además de otros algoritmos de alineamiento de secuencias, como el de Knuth Morris Pratt, para identificar subsecuencias posiblemente fraudulentas. Finalmente, en el ámbito de detección de fugas de información, se han desarrollado algoritmos aplicando técnicas estadísticas como las cadenas de Markov a la secuencia de ejecución de tareas de un usuario en un sistema informático, obteniendo buenos resultados que han sido comprobados con bases de datos secuenciales públicas y privadas.Cyber-attacks are currently a serious problem and are becoming increasingly frequent in organizations, companies and institutions worldwide. It can be defined as the unauthorized access, transfer or manipulation of a computer or data center. Confidential data in companies and organizations include intellectual property, financial information, medical information, personal credit card information and other information depending on the business and industry involved. In this thesis, various contributions are made within the field of Anomaly Detection (AD), Intruder Detection Systems (IDS) and Data Leak Detection (DLD). One of the main contributions common to the three aforementioned fields is the development of a dynamic data structure to represent the real and unique user behaviour, which allows each user to have a digital fingerprint that identifies them. Other contributions are related to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, both in data processing and in the development of meta-classifiers (combination of various AI techniques), for example C4.5, UCS, SVM, neural networks and K-NN, among others. They have been successfully applied to the detection of intruders and have been validated against public data bases such as UNIX, KDD99 and against a government database of the Republic of Ecuador. In the field of anomaly detection, bioinspired algorithms have been used in the detection of anomalous behaviours, such as artificial immune systems and negative selection, in addition to other sequence alignment algorithms, such as the Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) string matching algorithm, to identify potentially fraudulent subsequences. Lastly, in the field of data leak detection, algorithms have been developed applying statistical techniques such as Markov chains to a user's job execution sequence in an information system, obtaining good results which have been verified against sequential databases.Depto. de Arquitectura de Computadores y AutomáticaFac. de InformáticaTRUEunpu

Tecniche innovative per l'individuazione automatica degli oggetti sulle immagini satellitari

Implementazione di tecniche innovative quali la morfologia matematica, la template matching, i momenti invarianti e le reti neurali, nell'individuazione degli oggetti presenti nelle immagini satellitari a media, alta e altissima risoluzione spaziale