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Security research has concentrated on converting operating system audit logs into suitable graphs, such as provenance graphs, for analysis. However, provenance graphs can grow very large requiring significant computational resources beyond…

Cloud computing has emerged as a popular computing paradigm in recent years. However, today's cloud computing architectures often lack support for computer forensic investigations. Analyzing various logs (e.g., process logs, network logs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Shams Zawoad , Amit Kumar Dutta , Ragib Hasan

Recent research in both academia and industry has validated the effectiveness of provenance graph-based detection for advanced cyber attack detection and investigation. However, analyzing large-scale provenance graphs often results in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhenyuan Li , Yangyang Wei , Xiangmin Shen , Lingzhi Wang , Yan Chen , Haitao Xu , Shouling Ji , Fan Zhang , Liang Hou , Wenmao Liu , Xuhong Zhang , Jianwei Ying

Attack graphs (AGs) are graphical tools to analyze the security of computer networks. By connecting the exploitation of individual vulnerabilities, AGs expose possible multi-step attacks against target networks, allowing system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ming Li , John Hale

Logs are critical resources that record events, activities, or messages produced by software applications, operating systems, servers, and network devices. However, consolidating the heterogeneous logs and cross-referencing them is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Rabimba Karanjai , Yang Lu , Dana Alsagheer , Keshav Kasichainula , Lei Xu , Weidong Shi , Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang

We present a method to detect departures from business-justified workflows among support agents. Our goal is to assist auditors in identifying agent actions that cannot be explained by the activity within their surrounding context, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Birkett Huber , Casper Neo , Keiran Sampson , Alex Kantchelian , Brett Ksobiech , Yanis Pavlidis

Financial cybercrime prevention is an increasing issue with many organisations and governments. As deep learning models have progressed to identify illicit activity on various financial and social networks, the explainability behind the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jack Nicholls , Aditya Kuppa , Nhien-An Le-Khac

End-point monitoring solutions are widely deployed in today's enterprise environments to support advanced attack detection and investigation. These monitors continuously record system-level activities as audit logs and provide deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Hao Zhang , Shuo Shao , Song Li , Zhenyu Zhong , Yan Liu , Zhan Qin

Modern distributed systems generate large volumes of logs that can be analyzed to support essential AIOps tasks such as fault diagnosis, which plays a crucial role in maintaining system reliability. Most existing approaches rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mathis Nguyen , Mohamed Ali Lajnef

Provenance-based intrusion detection is an increasingly popular application of graphical machine learning in cybersecurity, where system activities are modeled as provenance graphs to capture causality and correlations among potentially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Lingzhi Wang , Vinod Yegneswaran , Xinyi Shi , Ziyu Li , Ashish Gehani , Yan Chen

Cloud quantum platforms give users access to many backends with different qubit technologies, coupling layouts, and noise levels. The execution of a circuit, however, depends on internal allocation and routing policies that are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Subrata Das , Archisman Ghosh , Swaroop Ghosh

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) describes the process of maintaining and operating large IT systems using diverse AI-enabled methods and tools for, e.g., anomaly detection and root cause analysis, to support the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Gjorgji Madjarov , Sasho Nedelkoski , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

Log-based insider threat detection (ITD) detects malicious user activities by auditing log entries. Recently, large language models (LLMs) with strong common sense knowledge have emerged in the domain of ITD. Nevertheless, diverse activity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chengyu Song , Linru Ma , Jianming Zheng , Jinzhi Liao , Hongyu Kuang , Lin Yang

GraphQL is a new paradigm to design web APIs. Despite its growing popularity, there are few techniques to verify the implementation of a GraphQL API. We present a new testing approach based on GraphQL queries that are logged while users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Louise Zetterlund , Deepika Tiwari , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

In the context of preventing and fighting crime, the analysis of mobile phone traffic, among actors of a criminal network, is helpful in order to reconstruct illegal activities on the base of the relationships connecting those specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Salvatore Catanese , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara

The ability to detect log anomalies from system logs is a vital activity needed to ensure cyber resiliency of systems. It is applied for fault identification or facilitate cyber investigation and digital forensics. However, as logs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jonathan Pan , Swee Liang Wong , Yidi Yuan

Log analysis is crucial for ensuring the orderly and stable operation of information systems, particularly in the field of Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Tianyu Cui , Shiyu Ma , Ziang Chen , Tong Xiao , Shimin Tao , Yilun Liu , Shenglin Zhang , Duoming Lin , Changchang Liu , Yuzhe Cai , Weibin Meng , Yongqian Sun , Dan Pei

Memory forensics is a powerful technique commonly adopted to investigate compromised machines and to detect stealthy computer attacks that do not store data on non-volatile storage. To employ this technique effectively, the analyst has to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Andrea Oliveri , Davide Balzarotti

GraphQL's flexibility, while beneficial for efficient data fetching, introduces unique security vulnerabilities that traditional API security mechanisms often fail to address. Malicious GraphQL queries can exploit the language's dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Irash Perera , Hiranya Abeyrathne , Sanjeewa Malalgoda , Arshardh Ifthikar

Cyber security attacks have become increasingly complex over time, with various phases of their kill chain, involving binaries, scripts, documents, executed commands, vulnerabilities, or network traffic. We propose a tool, GView, that is…

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