Marques, Rafael Salema, Al-Khateeb, Haider, Epiphaniou, Gregory and Maple, Carsten (2022). APIVADS: A Novel Privacy-Preserving Pivot Attack Detection Scheme Based On Statistical Pattern Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 17 , pp. 700-715.
Abstract
Advanced cyber attackers often 'pivot' through several devices in such complex infrastructure to obfuscate their footprints and overcome connectivity restrictions. However, prior pivot attack detection strategies present concerning limitations. This paper addresses an improvement of cyber defence with APIVADS, a novel adaptive pivoting detection scheme based on traffic flows to determine cyber adversaries' presence based on their pivoting behaviour in simple and complex interconnected networks. Additionally, APIVADS is agnostic regarding transport and application protocols. The scheme is optimized and tested to cover remotely connected locations beyond a corporate campus's perimeters. The scheme considers a hybrid approach between decentralized host-based detection of pivot attacks and a centralized approach to aggregate the results to achieve scalability. Empirical results from our experiments show the proposed scheme is efficient and feasible. For example, a 98.54% detection accuracy near real-time is achievable by APIVADS differentiating ongoing pivot attacks from regular enterprise traffic as TLS, HTTPS, DNS and P2P over the internet.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2022.3146076 |
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| Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Cyber Security Innovation (CSI) Research Centre College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | APT,lateral movement,network flow,pivot attack,privacy-preserving,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Computer Networks and Communications |
| Publication ISSN: | 1556-6021 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2024 07:19 |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2023 12:43 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
| Published Date: | 2022-01-25 |
| Accepted Date: | 2022-01-10 |
| Authors: |
Marques, Rafael Salema
Al-Khateeb, Haider ( 
0000-0001-8944-123X)
Epiphaniou, Gregory Maple, Carsten |
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