Title
Cyber Situational Awareness Through Operational Streaming Analysis
Abstract
As the scope and scale of Internet traffic continue to increase the task of maintaining cyber situational awareness about this traffic becomes ever more difficult. There is strong need for real-time on-line algorithms that characterize high-speed / high-volume data to support relevant situational awareness. Recently, much work has been done to create and improve analysis algorithms that operate in a streaming fashion (minimal CPU and memory utilization) in order to calculate important summary statistics (moments) of this network data for the purpose of characterization. While the research literature contains improvements to streaming algorithms in terms of efficiency and accuracy (i.e. approximation with error bounds), the literature lacks research results that demonstrate streaming algorithms in operational situations.The focus of our work is the development of a live network situational awareness system that relies upon streaming algorithms for the determination of important stream characterizations and also for the detection of anomalous behavior. We present our system and discuss its applicability to situational awareness of high-speed networks. We present refinements and enhancements that we have made to a well-known streaming algorithm and improve its performance as applied within our system. We also present performance and detection results of the system when it is applied to a live high-speed mid-scale enterprise network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127455
2011 - MILCOM 2011 MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature extraction,situational awareness,statistics,real time,internet,streaming algorithm,correlation,mathematical model,approximation algorithms,algorithm design,algorithms,situation awareness,detectors,cognition,algorithm design and analysis,business communication,internet traffic
Approximation algorithm,Algorithm design,Streaming algorithm,Computer science,Situation awareness,Computer network,Business communication,Enterprise private network,Internet traffic,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.54
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William W. Streilein114612.59
John Truelove2342.50
Chad R. Meiners337617.73
gregory t eakman450.54