Network-wide anomaly detection via the Dirichlet process
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Author(s)
Heard, NA
Rubin-Delanchy, P
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Statistical anomaly detection techniques provide the next layer of cyber-security defences below traditional signature-based approaches. This article presents a scalable, principled, probability-based technique for detecting outlying connectivity behaviour within a directed interaction network such as a computer network. Independent Bayesian statistical models are fit to each message recipient in the network using the Dirichlet process, which provides a tractable, conjugate prior distribution for an unknown discrete probability distribution. The method is shown to successfully detect a red team attack in authentication data obtained from the enterprise network of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Date Issued
2016-11-17
Date Acceptance
2016-07-22
Citation
2016
ISBN
978-1-5090-3865-7
Publisher
IEEE
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
GCHQ
Grant Number
PO Ref 4182166 / Cyber Funding
Source
IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2016
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2016-09-28
Finish Date
2016-09-30
Coverage Spatial
Arizona, USA