7 Short Links on Operational Security Machine Learning

Jason Trost
2 min readAug 11, 2017

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Image of Host-Domain Graph from “Segugio” paper referenced below

Below are references to 7 security papers that apply machine learning techniques against network or endpoint data in an operational setting.

Beehive: Large-Scale Log Analysis for Detecting Suspicious Activity in Enterprise Networks Ting-Fang Yen, Alina Oprea, Kaan Onarlioglu, Todd Leetham, William Robertson, Ari Juels, and Engin Kirda In Proceedings of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2013

An Epidemiological Study of Malware Encounters in a Large Enterprise Ting-Fang Yen, Victor Heorhiadi, Alina Oprea, Michael K. Reiter, and Ari Juels In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2014

Detection of Early-Stage Enterprise Infection by Mining Large-Scale Log Data Alina Oprea, Zhou Li, Ting-Fang Yen, Sang H. Chin, and Sumyah Alrwais In Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2015

Segugio: Efficient Behavior-Based Tracking of Malware-Control Domains in Large ISP Networks Babak Rahbarinia and Manos Antonakakis In Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2015

Malicious Behavior Detection using Windows Audit Logs Konstantin Berlin, David Slater, Joshua Saxe In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec) 2015

Operational security log analytics for enterprise breach detection Zhou Li and Alina Oprea In Proceedings of the First IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev), 2016

Lens on the endpoint: Hunting for malicious software through endpoint data analysis.Ahmet Buyukkayhan, Alina Oprea, Zhou Li, and William Robertson. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), 2017

–Jason
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This was originally posted on my blog: http://www.covert.io/seven-short-links-on-operational-security-machine-learning/

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Jason Trost

Interests: Network security, Digital Forensics, Machine Learning, Big Data. retweets are not endorsements.