Threat detection and investigation with system-level provenance graphs: A survey

Z Li, QA Chen, R Yang, Y Chen, W Ruan - Computers & Security, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of information technology, the border of the cyberspace gets much
broader and thus also exposes increasingly more vulnerabilities to attackers. Traditional …

Tactical provenance analysis for endpoint detection and response systems

WU Hassan, A Bates, D Marino - 2020 IEEE Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools provide visibility into sophisticated intrusions
by matching system events against known adversarial behaviors. However, current solutions …

Shadewatcher: Recommendation-guided cyber threat analysis using system audit records

J Zengy, X Wang, J Liu, Y Chen, Z Liang… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
System auditing provides a low-level view into cyber threats by monitoring system entity
interactions. In response to advanced cyber-attacks, one prevalent solution is to apply data …

Poirot: Aligning attack behavior with kernel audit records for cyber threat hunting

SM Milajerdi, B Eshete, R Gjomemo… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is being used to search for indicators of attacks that might
have compromised an enterprise network for a long time without being discovered. To have …

System-Level Data Management for Endpoint Advanced Persistent Threat Detection: Issues, Challenges and Trends

T Chen, C Zheng, T Zhu, C **ong, J Ying, Q Yuan… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks pose significant security threats to governments
and large enterprises. Endpoint detection and response (EDR) methods, which are standard …

Protracer: Towards practical provenance tracing by alternating between logging and tainting

S Ma, X Zhang, D Xu - 23rd Annual Network And …, 2016 - scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu
ProTracer: towards practical provenance tracing by alternating between logging and
tainting Page 1 Please do not remove this page ProTracer: towards practical provenance …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a Timely Causality Analysis for Enterprise Security.

Y Liu, M Zhang, D Li, K Jee, Z Li, Z Wu, J Rhee, P Mittal - NDSS, 2018 - princeton.edu
The increasingly sophisticated Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks have become a
serious challenge for enterprise IT security. Attack causality analysis, which tracks multi-hop …

Extractor: Extracting attack behavior from threat reports

K Satvat, R Gjomemo… - 2021 IEEE European …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The knowledge on attacks contained in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports is very
important to effectively identify and quickly respond to cyber threats. However, this …

[PDF][PDF] WATSON: Abstracting Behaviors from Audit Logs via Aggregation of Contextual Semantics.

J Zeng, ZL Chua, Y Chen, K Ji, Z Liang, J Mao - NDSS, 2021 - mimicji.github.io
Endpoint monitoring solutions are widely deployed in today's enterprise environments to
support advanced attack detection and investigation. These monitors continuously record …

OmegaLog: High-fidelity attack investigation via transparent multi-layer log analysis

WU Hassan, MA Noureddine, P Datta… - Network and distributed …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Recent advances in causality analysis have enabled investigators to trace multi-stage
attacks using whole-system provenance graphs. Based on system-layer audit logs (eg …