Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are the most critical menaces to modern organizations and the most challenging attacks to detect. They span over long periods of time, use encrypted connections and mimic normal behaviors in order to evade detection based on traditional defensive solutions. We propose an innovative approach that is able to analyze efficiently high volumes of network traffic to reveal weak signals related to data exfiltrations and other suspect APT activities. The final result is a ranking of the most suspicious internal hosts; this rank allows security specialists to focus their analyses on a small set of hosts out of the thousands of machines that typically characterize large organizations. Experimental evaluations in a network environment consisting of about 10K hosts show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach. Our proposal based on security analytics paves the way to novel forms of automatic defense aimed at early detection of APTs in large and continuously varying networked systems
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of information-theoretic anomaly detection algorithms applied to networks included in modern vehicles. In particular, we focus on providing an experimental evaluation of anomaly detectors based on entropy. Attacks to in-vehicle networks were simulated by injecting different classes of forged CAN messages in traces captured from a modern licensed vehicle. Experimental results show that if entropy-based anomaly detection is applied to all CAN messages it is only possible to detect attacks that comprise a high volume of forged CAN messages. On the other hand, attacks characterized by the injection of few forged CAN messages attacks can be detected only by applying several independent instances of the entropy based anomaly detector, one for each class of CAN messages
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