Title
Enabling Visual Analytics via Alert-driven Attack Graphs
Abstract
ABSTRACTAttack graphs (AG) are a popular area of research that display all the paths an attacker can exploit to penetrate a network. Existing techniques for AG generation rely heavily on expert input regarding vulnerabilities and network topology. In this work, we advocate the use of AGs that are built directly using the actions observed through intrusion alerts, without prior expert input. We have developed an unsupervised visual analytics system, called SAGE, to learn alert-driven attack graphs. We show how these AGs (i) enable forensic analysis of prior attacks, and (ii) enable proactive defense by providing relevant threat intelligence regarding attacker strategies. We believe that alert-driven AGs can play a key role in AI-enabled cyber threat intelligence as they open up new avenues for attacker strategy analysis whilst reducing analyst workload.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3460120.3485361
Computer and Communications Security
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Attack graphs, Intrusion alerts, Finite state automaton
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Azqa Nadeem111.36
Sicco Verwer228231.26
Stephen Moskal353.73
Shanchieh Jay Yang413123.11