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Cybersecurity Entity Alignment via Masked Graph Attention Networks

Artificial Intelligence 2022-07-05 v1

Abstract

Cybersecurity vulnerability information is often recorded by multiple channels, including government vulnerability repositories, individual-maintained vulnerability-gathering platforms, or vulnerability-disclosure email lists and forums. Integrating vulnerability information from different channels enables comprehensive threat assessment and quick deployment to various security mechanisms. Efforts to automatically gather such information, however, are impeded by the limitations of today's entity alignment techniques. In our study, we annotate the first cybersecurity-domain entity alignment dataset and reveal the unique characteristics of security entities. Based on these observations, we propose the first cybersecurity entity alignment model, CEAM, which equips GNN-based entity alignment with two mechanisms: asymmetric masked aggregation and partitioned attention. Experimental results on cybersecurity-domain entity alignment datasets demonstrate that CEAM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art entity alignment methods.

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@article{arxiv.2207.01434,
  title  = {Cybersecurity Entity Alignment via Masked Graph Attention Networks},
  author = {Yue Qin and Xiaojing Liao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01434},
  year   = {2022}
}
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