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20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'04)
Correlating Intrusion Events and Building Attack Scenarios Through Attack Graph Distances
Tucson, Arizona
December 06-December 10
ISBN: 0-7695-2252-1
Steven Noel, George Mason University
Eric Robertson, George Mason University
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University
We map intrusion events to known exploits in the network attack graph, and correlate the events through the corresponding attack graph distances. From this, we construct attack scenarios, and provide scores for the degree of causal correlation between their constituent events, as well as an overall relevancy score for each scenario. While intrusion event correlation and attack scenario construction have been previously studied, this is the first treatment based on association with network attack graphs. We handle missed detections through the analysis of network vulnerability dependencies, unlike previous approaches that infer hypothetical attacks. In particular, we quantify lack of knowledge through attack graph distance. We show that low-pass signal filtering of event correlation sequences improves results in the face of erroneous detections. We also show how a correlation threshold can be applied for creating strongly correlated attack scenarios. Our model is highly efficient, with attack graphs and their exploit distances being computed offline. Online event processing requires only a database lookup and a small number of arithmetic operations, making the approach feasible for real-time applications.
Citation:
Steven Noel, Eric Robertson, Sushil Jajodia, "Correlating Intrusion Events and Building Attack Scenarios Through Attack Graph Distances," acsac, pp.350-359, 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'04), 2004
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