Journal Article

Attack Graph Generation with Machine Learning for Network Security

Lee, Hansung, Jung, Se-Hoon, Huh, Jun-Ho, Moon, Daesung, Koo, Kijong

2022

Overview

Recently, with the discovery of various security threats, diversification of hacking attacks, and changes in the network environment such as the Internet of Things, security threats on the network are increasing. Attack graph is being actively studied to cope with the recent increase in cyber threats. However, the conventional attack graph generation method is costly and time-consuming. In this paper, we propose a cheap and simple method for generating the attack graph. The proposed approach consists of learning and generating stages. First, it learns how to generate an attack path from the attack graph, which is created based on the vulnerability database, using machine learning and deep learning. Second, it generates the attack graph using network topology and system information with a machine learning model that is trained with the attack graph generated from the vulnerability database. We construct the dataset for attack graph generation with topological and system information. The attack graph generation problem is recast as a multi-output learning and binary classification problem. It shows attack path detection accuracy of 89.52% in the multi-output learning approach and 80.68% in the binary classification approach using the in-house dataset, respectively.

• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Subject: Artificial intelligence / Classification / Cybersecurity / Datasets / Deep learning / Internet of Things / Machine learning / Methods / Network security / Network topologies / Performance evaluation / R&D / Research & development