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AI Solutions for MDS: Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Misuse Detection and Localisation in Telecommunication Environments
This report considers the application of Articial Intelligence (AI) techniques to
the problem of misuse detection and misuse localisation within telecommunications
environments. A broad survey of techniques is provided, that covers inter alia
rule based systems, model-based systems, case based reasoning, pattern matching,
clustering and feature extraction, articial neural networks, genetic algorithms, arti
cial immune systems, agent based systems, data mining and a variety of hybrid
approaches. The report then considers the central issue of event correlation, that
is at the heart of many misuse detection and localisation systems. The notion of
being able to infer misuse by the correlation of individual temporally distributed
events within a multiple data stream environment is explored, and a range of techniques,
covering model based approaches, `programmed' AI and machine learning
paradigms. It is found that, in general, correlation is best achieved via rule based approaches,
but that these suffer from a number of drawbacks, such as the difculty of
developing and maintaining an appropriate knowledge base, and the lack of ability
to generalise from known misuses to new unseen misuses. Two distinct approaches
are evident. One attempts to encode knowledge of known misuses, typically within
rules, and use this to screen events. This approach cannot generally detect misuses
for which it has not been programmed, i.e. it is prone to issuing false negatives.
The other attempts to `learn' the features of event patterns that constitute normal
behaviour, and, by observing patterns that do not match expected behaviour, detect
when a misuse has occurred. This approach is prone to issuing false positives,
i.e. inferring misuse from innocent patterns of behaviour that the system was not
trained to recognise. Contemporary approaches are seen to favour hybridisation,
often combining detection or localisation mechanisms for both abnormal and normal
behaviour, the former to capture known cases of misuse, the latter to capture
unknown cases. In some systems, these mechanisms even work together to update
each other to increase detection rates and lower false positive rates. It is concluded
that hybridisation offers the most promising future direction, but that a rule or state
based component is likely to remain, being the most natural approach to the correlation
of complex events. The challenge, then, is to mitigate the weaknesses of
canonical programmed systems such that learning, generalisation and adaptation
are more readily facilitated
Assessing and augmenting SCADA cyber security: a survey of techniques
SCADA systems monitor and control critical infrastructures of national importance such as power generation and distribution, water supply, transportation networks, and manufacturing facilities. The pervasiveness, miniaturisations and declining costs of internet connectivity have transformed these systems from strictly isolated to highly interconnected networks. The connectivity provides immense benefits such as reliability, scalability and remote connectivity, but at the same time exposes an otherwise isolated and secure system, to global cyber security threats. This inevitable transformation to highly connected systems thus necessitates effective security safeguards to be in place as any compromise or downtime of SCADA systems can have severe economic, safety and security ramifications. One way to ensure vital asset protection is to adopt a viewpoint similar to an attacker to determine weaknesses and loopholes in defences. Such mind sets help to identify and fix potential breaches before their exploitation. This paper surveys tools and techniques to uncover SCADA system vulnerabilities. A comprehensive review of the selected approaches is provided along with their applicability
A cognitive based Intrusion detection system
Intrusion detection is one of the primary mechanisms to provide computer
networks with security. With an increase in attacks and growing dependence on
various fields such as medicine, commercial, and engineering to give services
over a network, securing networks have become a significant issue. The purpose
of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) is to make models which can recognize
regular communications from abnormal ones and take necessary actions. Among
different methods in this field, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been
widely used. However, ANN-based IDS, has two main disadvantages: 1- Low
detection precision. 2- Weak detection stability. To overcome these issues,
this paper proposes a new approach based on Deep Neural Network (DNN. The
general mechanism of our model is as follows: first, some of the data in
dataset is properly ranked, afterwards, dataset is normalized with Min-Max
normalizer to fit in the limited domain. Then dimensionality reduction is
applied to decrease the amount of both useless dimensions and computational
cost. After the preprocessing part, Mean-Shift clustering algorithm is the used
to create different subsets and reduce the complexity of dataset. Based on each
subset, two models are trained by Support Vector Machine (SVM) and deep
learning method. Between two models for each subset, the model with a higher
accuracy is chosen. This idea is inspired from philosophy of divide and
conquer. Hence, the DNN can learn each subset quickly and robustly. Finally, to
reduce the error from the previous step, an ANN model is trained to gain and
use the results in order to be able to predict the attacks. We can reach to
95.4 percent of accuracy. Possessing a simple structure and less number of
tunable parameters, the proposed model still has a grand generalization with a
high level of accuracy in compared to other methods such as SVM, Bayes network,
and STL.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figure
Using the Pattern-of-Life in Networks to Improve the Effectiveness of Intrusion Detection Systems
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.As the complexity of cyber-attacks keeps increasing, new and more robust detection mechanisms need to be developed. The next generation of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) should be able to adapt their detection characteristics based not only on the measureable network traffic, but also on the available high- level information related to the protected network to improve their detection results. We make use of the Pattern-of-Life (PoL) of a network as the main source of high-level information, which is correlated with the time of the day and the usage of the network resources. We propose the use of a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) to incorporate the PoL into the detection process. The main aim of this work is to evidence the improved the detection performance of an IDS using an FCM to leverage on network related contextual information. The results that we present verify that the proposed method improves the effectiveness of our IDS by reducing the total number of false alarms; providing an improvement of 9.68% when all the considered metrics are combined and a peak improvement of up to 35.64%, depending on particular metric combination
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