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Complex heterogeneous dynamic networks like knowledge graphs are powerful constructs that can be used in modeling data provenance from computer systems. From a security perspective, these attributed graphs enable causality analysis and…
Lucid programs are data-flow programs and can be visually represented as data flow graphs (DFGs) and composed visually. Forensic Lucid, a Lucid dialect, is a language to specify and reason about cyberforensic cases. It includes the encoding…
We present ProvG-Searcher, a novel approach for detecting known APT behaviors within system security logs. Our approach leverages provenance graphs, a comprehensive graph representation of event logs, to capture and depict data provenance…
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) in large enterprises can generate hundreds of thousands of alerts per hour, overwhelming analysts with logs requiring rapidly evolving expertise. Conventional machine-learning detectors…
In cloud-based endpoint auditing, security administrators often rely on the cloud to perform causality analysis over log-derived versioned provenance graphs to investigate suspicious attack behaviors. However, the cloud may be distrusted or…
Attack Graph (AG) represents the best-suited solution to support cyber risk assessment for multi-step attacks on computer networks, although their generation suffers from poor scalability due to their combinatorial complexity. Current…
Computer system monitoring generates huge amounts of logs that record the interaction of system entities. How to query such data to better understand system behaviors and identify potential system risks and malicious behaviors becomes a…
Temporal graph representation learning (TGRL) is essential for modeling dynamic systems in real-world networks. However, traditional TGRL methods, despite their effectiveness, often face significant computational challenges and inference…
39 seconds. That is the timelapse between two consecutive cyber attacks as of 2023. Meaning that by the time you are done reading this abstract, about 1 or 2 additional cyber attacks would have occurred somewhere in the world. In this…
In the era of rapid Internet development, log data has become indispensable for recording the operations of computer devices and software. These data provide valuable insights into system behavior and necessitate thorough analysis. Recent…
The structural properties of naturally arising social graphs are extensively studied to understand their evolution. Prior approaches for modeling network dynamics typically rely on rule-based models, which lack realism and generalizability,…
Intrusion detection system (IDS) is an important part of enterprise security system architecture. In particular, anomaly-based IDS has been widely applied to detect abnormal process behaviors that deviate from the majority. However, such…
LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex domains but suffer from inherent fragility and opaque failure mechanisms. Existing failure attribution methods, whether relying on direct prompting,…
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are sophisticated cyber attacks that can remain undetected for extended periods, making their mitigation particularly challenging. Given their persistence, significant effort is required to detect them and…
For large-scale distributed systems, it's crucial to efficiently diagnose the root causes of incidents to maintain high system availability. The recent development of microservice architecture brings three major challenges (i.e., operation,…
User simulators are essential for evaluating search systems, but they primarily reproduce user actions without modeling the underlying thought process. Large-scale interaction logs record what users do, but not what they might be thinking…
Uncovering the mechanisms behind "jailbreaks" in large language models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing their safety and reliability, yet these mechanisms remain poorly understood. Existing studies predominantly analyze jailbreak prompts by…
Event log analysis is an important task that security professionals undertake. Event logs record key information on activities that occur on computing devices, and due to the substantial number of events generated, they consume a large…
Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to incorporate structured knowledge via graph retrieval as contextual input, enhancing more accurate and context-aware reasoning. We observe that for…
Graph data is becoming increasingly prevalent due to the growing demand for relational insights in AI across various domains. Organizations regularly use graph data to solve complex problems involving relationships and connections. Causal…