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Anomaly detection in event logs is a promising approach for intrusion detection in enterprise networks. By building a statistical model of usual activity, it aims to detect multiple kinds of malicious behavior, including stealthy tactics,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Corentin Larroche , Johan Mazel , Stephan Clémençon

The increasing connectivity of data and cyber-physical systems has resulted in a growing number of cyber-attacks. Real-time detection of such attacks, through the identification of anomalous activity, is required so that mitigation and…

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Anomaly detection systems aim to detect and report attacks or unexpected behavior in networked systems. Previous work has shown that anomalies have an impact on system performance, and that performance signatures can be effectively used for…

Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) generate valuable knowledge about network security, but an abundance of false alarms and a lack of methods to capture the interdependence among alerts hampers their utility for network defense. Here, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Anthony Palladino , Christopher J. Thissen

Recent works have shown promise in using microarchitectural execution patterns to detect malware programs. These detectors belong to a class of detectors known as signature-based detectors as they catch malware by comparing a program's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Adrian Tang , Simha Sethumadhavan , Salvatore Stolfo

Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying data patterns that deviate remarkably from the expected behaviour. This is an important research problem, due to its broad set of application domains, from data analysis to e-health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 L. Erhan , M. Ndubuaku , M. Di Mauro , W. Song , M. Chen , G. Fortino , O. Bagdasar , A. Liotta

The ever-increasing security vulnerabilities in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems require improved threat detection approaches. This paper presents a compact and efficient approach to detect botnet attacks by employing an integrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Amna Naeem , Jawad Ahmad , Muazzam A. Khan , Aizaz Ahmad Khattak , Muhammad Shahbaz Khan

Hacking and false data injection from adversaries can threaten power grids' everyday operations and cause significant economic loss. Anomaly detection in power grids aims to detect and discriminate anomalies caused by cyber attacks against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Xijuan Sun , Di Wu , Arnaud Zinflou , Benoit Boulet

In general, a botnet is a collection of compromised internet computers, controlled by attackers for malicious purposes. To increase attacks' success chance and resilience against defence mechanisms, modern botnets have often a decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Gokhan Sagirlar , Barbara Carminati , Elena Ferrari

Detecting the anomaly behaviors such as network failure or Internet intentional attack in the large-scale Internet is a vital but challenging task. While numerous techniques have been developed based on Internet traffic in past years,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Jinfa Wang , Siyuan Jia , Hai Zhao , Jiuqiang Xu , Chuan Lin

Generating random bit streams is required in various applications, most notably cyber-security. Ensuring high-quality and robust randomness is crucial to mitigate risks associated with predictability and system compromise. True random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Cesare Gerolimetto Fabrello , Valeria Rossi , Kamil Witek , Alberto Trombetta , Massimo Caccia

This work presents a fraud and abuse detection framework for streaming services by modeling user streaming behavior. The goal is to discover anomalous and suspicious incidents and scale the investigation efforts by creating models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Soheil Esmaeilzadeh , Negin Salajegheh , Amir Ziai , Jeff Boote

Serverless computing has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

The rapid increase in the use of IoT devices brings many benefits to the digital society, ranging from improved efficiency to higher productivity. However, the limited resources and the open nature of these devices make them vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Joseph Rose , Matthew Swann , Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

As the number of heterogenous IP-connected devices and traffic volume increase, so does the potential for security breaches. The undetected exploitation of these breaches can bring severe cybersecurity and privacy risks. Anomaly-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Willian T. Lunardi , Martin Andreoni Lopez , Jean-Pierre Giacalone

Anomaly detection is a longstanding and active research area that has many applications in domains such as finance, security, and manufacturing. However, the efficiency and performance of anomaly detection algorithms are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yang Cao , Haolong Xiang , Hang Zhang , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

With the ubiquitous computing of providing services and applications at anywhere and anytime, cloud computing is the best option as it offers flexible and pay-per-use based services to its customers. Nevertheless, security and privacy are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Nour Moustafa , Gideon Creech , Elena Sitnikova , Marwa Keshk

The proliferation of IoT systems, has seen them targeted by malicious third parties. To address this, realistic protection and investigation countermeasures need to be developed. Such countermeasures include network intrusion detection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Nickolaos Koroniotis , Nour Moustafa , Elena Sitnikova , Benjamin Turnbull

The increasing digitization of smart grids has made addressing cybersecurity issues crucial in order to secure the power supply. Anomaly detection has emerged as a key technology for cybersecurity in smart grids, enabling the detection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Ömer Sen , Simon Glomb , Martin Henze , Andreas Ulbig

Given a stream of graph edges from a dynamic graph, how can we assign anomaly scores to edges and subgraphs in an online manner, for the purpose of detecting unusual behavior, using constant time and memory? For example, in intrusion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Siddharth Bhatia , Mohit Wadhwa , Kenji Kawaguchi , Neil Shah , Philip S. Yu , Bryan Hooi