@online{2017:peshave:ibm_community_detect_nw_threats,type={online},publisher={6th Annual IBM Research
Cognitive Colloquium},howpublished={poster},note={Poster
[Online]},id={2017:peshave:ibm_community_detect_nw_threats},year={2017},month={09},day={},date={2017-09},title={Community
Detection and Associativity to Detect Network Threats},author={Peshave, Akshay and Oates,
Tim},url={https://akshaypeshave.com/publications/poster/ibm_research_cognitive_colloquium_2017_poster/index.html}}
Community Detection and Associativity to Detect Network Threats
Peshave, Akshay; Oates, Tim
6th Annual IBM Research Cognitive Colloquium 2017 September
ABSTRACT : A large collection of software
and hardware sensors exist for monitoring network traffic at different granularity and alerting
when suspicious traffic is encountered. The sensors utilize large and diverse rule-sets to
detect malicious network traffic patterns. The data generated by these sensors can be utilized
to provide a holistic assessment and reason about network threat patterns. We propose an
analytic pipeline which applies graph theoretic and machine learning methods to achieve this.
The proposed analytics pipeline allows a holistic assessment of network traffic patterns at
custom temporal granularity. Further, temporal coccurrence of host interactions and
associativity can help discover possible collusion and attack campaign signatures. This
automated workflow is extendable and customizable by adding new computation blocks and an
interactive, human-in-the-loop experience.