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The Panacea Threat Intelligence and Active Defense Platform

Computation and Language 2020-04-22 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We describe Panacea, a system that supports natural language processing (NLP) components for active defenses against social engineering attacks. We deploy a pipeline of human language technology, including Ask and Framing Detection, Named Entity Recognition, Dialogue Engineering, and Stylometry. Panacea processes modern message formats through a plug-in architecture to accommodate innovative approaches for message analysis, knowledge representation and dialogue generation. The novelty of the Panacea system is that uses NLP for cyber defense and engages the attacker using bots to elicit evidence to attribute to the attacker and to waste the attacker's time and resources.

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@article{arxiv.2004.09662,
  title  = {The Panacea Threat Intelligence and Active Defense Platform},
  author = {Adam Dalton and Ehsan Aghaei and Ehab Al-Shaer and Archna Bhatia and Esteban Castillo and Zhuo Cheng and Sreekar Dhaduvai and Qi Duan and Md Mazharul Islam and Younes Karimi and Amir Masoumzadeh and Brodie Mather and Sashank Santhanam and Samira Shaikh and Tomek Strzalkowski and Bonnie J. Dorr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09662},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted at STOC

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