1st International ICST Workshop on Enterprise Network Security

Research Article

Work in Progress - Tracking Correlated Attacks in Enterprise Intranets through Lattices

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359570,
        author={Sule  Simsek},
        title={Work in Progress - Tracking Correlated Attacks in Enterprise Intranets through Lattices},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Enterprise Network Security},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={WENS},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={Attack Graph Correlation Distributed Denial of Service Attack Intrusion Detection Visualization.},
        doi={10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359570}
    }
    
  • Sule Simsek
    Year: 2007
    Work in Progress - Tracking Correlated Attacks in Enterprise Intranets through Lattices
    WENS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359570
Sule Simsek1,2,*
  • 1: Student Member, IEEE.
  • 2: Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65409 USA
*Contact email: simsek@umr.edu

Abstract

Tracking attacks caused by correlation between malicious hosts is a rapidly growing research area. In this work-in-progress paper, we propose a lattice-based visualization method to capture the correlation between malicious hosts in an enterprise internal network. We present the design of L-BIDS (lattice-based intrusion detection system) in which the nodes represent the causal and correlated properties of the network messages. In order to track the propagation of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, L-BIDS nodes are highlighted with different colors based on their role within the attack. The colored structure of nodes in an L-BIDS lattice allow us to obtain a concise intrusion signature, therefore, simplifies the tracking of the propagation of the DDoS attack. In our preliminary L-BIDS model, the analysis of the network data is off-line