NDLI: The attackers' potential influence on the tactical assessments produced by standard alert correlation systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Neville, S.W.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada (Neville, S.W.)
Abstract	This work shows that knowledgeable attackers can influence the tactical assessments output by INFOSEC alert correlation systems solely through manipulating the timing characteristics of their attacks. The approach taken is to assume that the defender's goal is to thwart attackers by enact optimal tactical responses. It is then shown that, even in an idealized environment, the defender has no guarantee that the correlation system's estimates of the enacted attacks are correct. A theoretical path always exists by which the attacker can influence the contents of the correlation system's low-level alert clusters. As these low-level clusters form the basis of all higher level analyses, this is sufficient to show that the attacker has influence over the tactical assessments reported by correlation systems. In essence, the attackers can cause the defender to mis-correlate an attack's generated INFOSEC alerts in a manner which can go undetected and is to the attacker's advantage. This capability is shown to hinge on there being attacks whose identification requires the analysis of shared alerts (i.e., alerts generated by two or more distinct attacks).
Starting Page	61
Ending Page	66
File Size	227149
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780394275
DOI	10.1109/NPSEC.2005.1532055
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-11-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Councils Pressing Telecommunication traffic Production Fasteners Traffic control Large-scale systems Performance analysis Game theory Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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