SECURE-RCA: Evidence-Guided Cybersecurity Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
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摘要
Many security events are detected by security event detectors; thus, it is necessary to relate events with the associated process activities before starting an investigation of incidents. Larger windows can result in grouping unrelated events, while smaller windows can split related process activities, leading to the inaccurate correlation. While contextual information and process lineage can help event correlation, evidence from the endpoint telemetry may not always be sufficient for determining parent-child process relations. The paper entitled "SECURE-RCA: Evidence-Guided Cybersecurity Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis" examines the effect of temporal proximity, contextual attributes, and availability of evidence on parent-process candidates' selection using Windows endpoint telemetry. It considers fixed-time-window correlation behavior, contextual consistency between parent-child process pairs, and consideration of hard non-parent candidates that are temporally possible but are not parents of child processes. To assess candidates for parent processes, a Random Forest classifier is constructed based on temporal gaps, matching of contextual attributes, and availability of evidence. Evaluation of the model is done using child-grouped cross-validation in order to prevent data leakage from training to test sets. In addition to that, the ablation study assesses the separate effect of each of the aforementioned feature groups in identifying candidates for parent-child process relations. It can be seen from the results that the integration of temporal and contextual evidence is crucial when looking for potential parent-child process relations.
关键词
security event correlation,process lineage,parent-process candidate selection,contextual evidence,endpoint telemetry,Random Forest
稿件作者
SARANYA S
Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai
AKSHAYA M
Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai
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