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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

Log anomaly detection is crucial for preserving the security of operating systems. Depending on the source of log data collection, various information is recorded in logs that can be considered log modalities. In light of this intuition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mohammad Nasirzadeh , Jafar Tahmoresnezhad , Parviz Rashidi-Khazaee

We introduce a novel, practically relevant variation of the anomaly detection problem in multi-variate time series: intrinsic anomaly detection. It appears in diverse practical scenarios ranging from DevOps to IoT, where we want to…

Insider threats represent one of the most critical challenges in modern cybersecurity. These threats arise from individuals within an organization who misuse their legitimate access to harm the organization's assets, data, or operations.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Anas Ali , Mubashar Husain , Peter Hans

Insider threats pose a persistent and critical security risk, yet are notoriously difficult to detect in complex enterprise environments, where malicious actions are often hidden within seemingly benign user behaviors. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiongchi Yu , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Yuhan Ma , Ziming Zhao

Anomaly detection based on system logs plays an important role in intelligent operations, which is a challenging task due to the extremely complex log patterns. Existing methods detect anomalies by capturing the sequential dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ling Chen , Chaodu Song , Xu Wang , Dachao Fu , Feifei Li

One of the most challenging problems in the field of intrusion detection is anomaly detection for discrete event logs. While most earlier work focused on applying unsupervised learning upon engineered features, most recent work has started…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Lun-Pin Yuan , Peng Liu , Sencun Zhu

Static analysis tools have evolved over time to assist in detecting bugs. However, the excessive false warnings can impede developers' productivity and confidence in the tools. Previous research efforts have explored learning-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Han Liu , Jian Zhang , Cen Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Kaixuan Li , Sen Chen , Shang-Wei Lin , Yixiang Chen , Xinhua Li , Yang Liu

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) monitor system logs and network traffic to recognize malicious activities in computer networks. Evaluating and comparing IDSs with respect to their detection accuracies is thereby essential for their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Max Landauer , Florian Skopik , Maximilian Frank , Wolfgang Hotwagner , Markus Wurzenberger , Andreas Rauber

Log-system is an important mechanism for recording the runtime status and events of Web service systems, and anomaly detection in logs is an effective method of detecting problems. However, manual anomaly detection in logs is inefficient,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jiawei Lu , Chengrong Wu

Log-based detection rules remain central to modern security operations, encoding domain expertise that analysts iteratively refine to balance detection coverage against alert volume. Yet while prior work has examined the evolution of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Minjun Long , David Evans

The widespread use of smartphones gives rise to new security and privacy concerns. Smartphone thefts account for the largest percentage of thefts in recent crime statistics. Using a victim's smartphone, the attacker can launch impersonation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Wei-Han Lee , Ruby Lee

Log anomaly detection is a key component in the field of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps). Considering log data of variant domains, retraining the whole network for unknown domains is inefficient in real industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Hongcheng Guo , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Jiaqi Bai , Boyang Wang , Zhoujun Li , Tieqiao Zheng , Bo Zhang , Junran peng , Qi Tian

The analysis of multivariate time series data is challenging due to the various frequencies of signal changes that can occur over both short and long terms. Furthermore, standard deep learning models are often unsuitable for such datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Iman Deznabi , Madalina Fiterau

Insider threats are a growing concern for organizations due to the amount of damage that their members can inflict by combining their privileged access and domain knowledge. Nonetheless, the detection of such threats is challenging,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Simon Bertrand , Nadia Tawbi , Josée Desharnais

Insider threats are costly, hard to detect, and unfortunately rising in occurrence. Seeking to improve detection of such threats, we develop novel techniques to enable us to extract powerful features and augment attack vectors for greater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Sameer Khanna

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is an essential task in the image processing community with prospects in video surveillance, which faces fundamental challenges in balancing detection accuracy with computational efficiency. As video content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yang Liu , Boan Chen , Xiaoguang Zhu , Jing Liu , Peng Sun , Wei Zhou

Smart homes, powered by the Internet of Things, offer great convenience but also pose security concerns due to abnormal behaviors, such as improper operations of users and potential attacks from malicious attackers. Several behavior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Jingyu Xiao , Zhiyao Xu , Qingsong Zou , Qing Li , Dan Zhao , Dong Fang , Ruoyu Li , Wenxin Tang , Kang Li , Xudong Zuo , Penghui Hu , Yong Jiang , Zixuan Weng , Michael R. Lyv

Multi-User Detection is fundamental not only to cellular wireless communication but also to Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology that supports supply chain management. The challenge of Multi-user Detection (MUD) is that of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Yuejie Chi , Yao Xie , Robert Calderbank

Anomalies or failures in large computer systems, such as the cloud, have an impact on a large number of users that communicate, compute, and store information. Therefore, timely and accurate anomaly detection is necessary for reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Harold Ott , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Sasho Nedelkoski , Odej Kao