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Model-based evaluation in cybersecurity has a long history. Attack Graphs (AGs) and Attack Trees (ATs) were the earlier developed graphical security models for cybersecurity analysis. However, they have limitations (e.g., scalability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Simon Yusuf Enoch , Mengmeng Ge , Jin B. Hong , Dong Seong Kim

Node classification and graph classification are two graph learning problems that predict the class label of a node and the class label of a graph respectively. A node of a graph usually represents a real-world entity, e.g., a user in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jia Li , Yu Rong , Hong Cheng , Helen Meng , Wenbing Huang , Junzhou Huang

This work-in-progress paper introduces a prototype for a novel Graph Neural Network (GNN) based approach to estimate hidden states in cyber attack simulations. Utilizing the Meta Attack Language (MAL) in conjunction with Relational Dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Pontus Johnson , Mathias Ekstedt

Despite the success of graph neural networks (GNNs), their vulnerability to adversarial attacks poses tremendous challenges for practical applications. Existing defense methods suffer from severe performance decline under unseen attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Shuchang Tao , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Yunfan Wu , Bingbing Xu , Xueqi Cheng

Network alignment, or the task of finding corresponding nodes in different networks, is an important problem formulation in many application domains. We propose CAPER, a multilevel alignment framework that Coarsens the input graphs, Aligns…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jing Zhu , Danai Koutra , Mark Heimann

Selecting the optimal set of countermeasures is a challenging task that involves various considerations and tradeoffs such as prioritizing the risks to mitigate and costs. The vast majority of studies for selecting a countermeasure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Orly Stan , Ron Bitton , Michal Ezrets , Moran Dadon , Masaki Inokuchi , Yoshinobu Ohta , Tomohiko Yagyu , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Proof of Work (PoW) based cyberdefense systems require incoming network requests to expend effort solving an arbitrary mathematical puzzle. Current state of the art is unable to differentiate between trustworthy and untrustworthy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Trisha Chakraborty , Shaswata Mitra , Sudip Mittal , Maxwell Young

As frontier AI models become more capable, evaluating their potential to enable cyberattacks is crucial for ensuring the safe development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Current cyber evaluation efforts are often ad-hoc, lacking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Mikel Rodriguez , Raluca Ada Popa , Four Flynn , Lihao Liang , Allan Dafoe , Anna Wang

In-network computation represents a transformative approach to addressing the escalating demands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads on network infrastructure. By leveraging the processing capabilities of network devices such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aleksandr Algazinov , Joydeep Chandra , Matt Laing

The field of cybersecurity is confronted with two interrelated challenges: a worldwide deficit of qualified practitioners and ongoing human-factor weaknesses that account for the bulk of security incidents. To tackle these issues, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas , Ilias Karachalios , Andrew J. McCracken

Automated planning is one of the foundational areas of AI. Since no single planner can work well for all tasks and domains, portfolio-based techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years. In particular, deep learning emerges as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tengfei Ma , Patrick Ferber , Siyu Huo , Jie Chen , Michael Katz

Elucidating the reasoning process with structured explanations from question to answer is crucial, as it significantly enhances the interpretability, traceability, and trustworthiness of question-answering (QA) systems. However, structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Guoxin Chen , Kexin Tang , Chao Yang , Fuying Ye , Yu Qiao , Yiming Qian

Many modern big data applications feature large scale in both numbers of responses and predictors. Better statistical efficiency and scientific insights can be enabled by understanding the large-scale response-predictor association network…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-28 Yoshimasa Uematsu , Yingying Fan , Kun Chen , Jinchi Lv , Wei Lin

A vulnerability scan combined with information about a computer network can be used to create an attack graph, a model of how the elements of a network could be used in an attack to reach specific states or goals in the network. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Isaac Matthews , Sadegh Soudjani , Aad van Moorsel

Detection of malicious behavior in a large network is a challenging problem for machine learning in computer security, since it requires a model with high expressive power and scalable inference. Existing solutions struggle to achieve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Simon Mandlik , Tomas Pevny , Vaclav Smidl , Lukas Bajer

Spectre and Meltdown attacks and their variants exploit hardware performance optimization features to cause security breaches. Secret information is accessed and leaked through covert or side channels. New attack variants keep appearing and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Zecheng He , Guangyuan Hu , Ruby Lee

Attack trees and attack graphs are both common graphical threat models used by organizations to better understand possible cybersecurity threats. These models have been primarily seen as separate entities, to be used and researched in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Nathan Daniel Schiele , Olga Gadyatskaya

Modern information society depends on reliable functionality of information systems infrastructure, while at the same time the number of cyber-attacks has been increasing over the years and damages have been caused. Furthermore, graphs can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nikolaos Polatidis , Elias Pimenidis , Michalis Pavlidis , Spyridon Papastergiou , Haralambos Mouratidis

The rapid evolution of modern malware presents significant challenges to the development of effective defense mechanisms. Traditional cyber deception techniques often rely on static or manually configured parameters, limiting their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shihab Ahmed , A B M Mohaimenur Rahman , Md Morshed Alam , Md Sajidul Islam Sajid

With the rapid growth of large online social networks, the ability to analyze large-scale social structure and behavior has become critically important, and this has led to the development of several scalable graph processing systems. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Benjamin Heintz , Rankyung Hong , Shivangi Singh , Gaurav Khandelwal , Corey Tesdahl , Abhishek Chandra