Multi-domain information fusion for insider threat detection

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Event 2013 IEEE Workshop on Research for Insider Threat (WRIT)

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Hoda Eldardiry
Evgeniy Bart
John Hanley
Brdiczka, Oliver
Technical Publications
May 24th 2013
Malicious insiders pose significant threats to information security, and yet the capability of detecting malicious insiders is very limited. Insider threat detection is known to be a difficult problem, presenting many research challenges. In this paper we report our effort on detecting malicious insiders from large amounts of work practice data. We propose novel approaches to detect two types of insider activities: (1) blend-in anomalies, where malicious insiders try to behave similar to a group they do not belong to, and (2) unusual change anomalies, where malicious insiders exhibit changes in their behavior that are dissimilar to their peers behavioral changes. Our first contribution focuses on detecting blend-in malicious insiders. We propose a novel approach by examining various activity domains, and detecting behavioral inconsistencies across these domains. Our second contribution is a method for detecting insiders with unusual changes in behavior. The key strength of this proposed approach is that it avoids flagging common changes that can be mistakenly detected by typical temporal anomaly detection mechanisms. Our third contribution is a method that combines anomaly indicators from multiple sources of information.

Citation

Eldardiry, H.; Bart, E.; Liu, J.; Hanley, J.; Price, R.; Brdiczka, O. Multi-domain information fusion for insider threat detection. 2013 IEEE Workshop on Research for Insider Threat (WRIT); 2013 May 24; San Francisco, CA.

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