AI & ML in Cyber Security - Welcome Back to 1999 - Security Hasn't Changed
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The presentation discusses the stagnation of cybersecurity technologies since 1999, exploring the role of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in advancing security measures. It criticizes existing tools like firewalls and SIEM for their unchanged functionalities and outlines potential improvements through visualization, adaptive security, and human-assisted ML systems. The document also emphasizes the need for effective data management and context in security analytics to enhance prediction and threat detection.
AI & ML in Cyber Security - Welcome Back to 1999 - Security Hasn't Changed
- 1. AI & ML in Cyber Security Welcome Back To 1999 - Security Hasn’t Changed Raffael Marty VP Security Analytics BSides Vancouver March 2017
- 2. Disclaimer © Raffael Marty 2 "This presentation was prepared solely by Raffael Marty in his personal capacity. The material, views, and opinions expressed in this presentation are the author's own and do not reflect the views of Sophos Ltd. or its affiliates."
- 3. Raffael Marty • Sophos • PixlCloud • Loggly • Splunk • ArcSight • IBM Research • SecViz • Logging • Big Data • SIEM • Leadership • Zen
- 4. My Provocative Premise • Cyber Defense / Monitoring / Analytics is still at the level of 1999 • We can’t predict the weather and we have done it since 1 August 1861 o “The weather predicted by the BBC for four days time was just 30-40% accurate” • Predicting election results anyone? o “80% chance Clinton will win.”
- 5. Outline 5 • Nothing Has Changed in Security (Defense) • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence • Visualization • Now What?
- 6. Nothing Has Changed in Security Since 1999
- 7. Summary of Technologies • Firewalls – policy management, auditing a challenge • IDS/IPS – false positives • Threat Intelligence – really the same as IDS signatures • DLP – just an IDS engine • Vulnerability Scanners – what’s up with those old user interfaces? • SIEM – still the same issues: parsing, context, prioritization • Security Analytics – can actually mostly be done with your SIEM
- 8. Machine Learning 8http://theconversation.com/your-questions-answered-on-artificial-intelligence-49645 & Artificial Intelligence Is this the answer to all of our security problems? Is ML and AI what we have been waiting for?
- 9. Definitions •Statistics - quantifies numbers •Data Mining - explains patterns •Machine Learning - predicts with models •Artificial Intelligence - behaves and reasons
- 10. Machine Learning / Data Mining 10 • Anomaly detection (outlier detection) o What’s “normal”? • Association rule learning (e.g., items purchased together) • Clustering • Classification • Regression (model the data) • Summarization
- 11. Data Mining in Security The graph shows an abstract space with colors being machine identified clusters.
- 12. Machine Learning in Security •Needs a corpus of data to learn from •Network traffic analysis still not working oNo labeled data o Not sure what the right features should be •Works okay for SPAM and malware classification
- 13. Artificial Intelligence in Security •Just calling something AI doesn’t make it AI. ”A program that doesn't simply classify or compute model parameters, but comes up with novel knowledge that a security analyst finds insightful.” Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) • Computer programs we have today that perform a specific, narrow task: Deep Blue, Amazon recommendations Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) • A program that could learn to complete any task • What many of us imagine when we think of AI, but no one has managed to accomplish it yet Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) • Any computer program that is all-around smarter than a human (also see the singularity by Ray Kurzweil) https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/thinking-machines-the-search-for-artificial-intelligence
- 14. The Law of Accelerating Returns – Ray Kurzweil http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
- 15. ML Looses 15 • We have tried many thing: o Social Network Analysis o Seasonality detection o Entropy over time o Frequent pattern mining o Clustering • All kinds of challenges o Characterize normal o Extract what has been learned o Statistical vs. domain anomalies • Simple works!
- 16. Simple - Data Abstraction 16
- 17. Simple Works - Monitor Password Resets 17 threshold outliers have different magnitudes
- 18. Approximate Curve 18 fitting a curve distance to curve
- 19. Data Mining Applied 19 • Some would sell this as AI better threshold
- 21. S e c u r i t y . A n a l y t i c s . I n s i g h t . “How Can We See, Not To Confirm - But To Learn” - Edward Tufte
- 23. Areas To Explore • Environment specific rather than environment agnostic approaches o Same IDS signatures for everyone? Same SIEM signatures? o Real-time threat intel sharing • Context o Users don’t think in IP addresses, they think about users o Topology mapping anyone? o User-based policies, not machine based o Adaptive security • Capture expert knowledge o Collaborative efforts • Forget about 3D visualization 😊
- 24. Promising Approaches That Will “Change” Security • Continuous authentication • Dynamic policy decisions – automation – really closing the loop o But what products do this well? Open APIs, low f/p, etc. • Micro segmentation (including SDN?) • Real-time threat intelligence sharing • Human assisted machine learning systems • Crowd sourcing • End-user involved / assisted decision making • Eradicate phishing, please!
- 25. How Will ML / AI Help? • Machine learning consists of algorithms that need data o Garbage in - garbage out o Data formats and semantics • Deep learning is just another ML algorithm o Malware classification (it isn’t necessarily better than other ML algorithms) o Basically eliminates the feature engineering step • Many inherent challenges (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEAMF0TaUUU) o Distance functions o Context – need input from HR systems and others o Choice of algorithm o Etc. • Where to use ML o Classification problems (traffic, binaries, activities, etc.) o There is good work being done on automating the level 1 analyst o Look for systems that leverage humans in the loop (see topic of knowledge capture)
- 26. Security Visualization Community 26 • http://secviz.org • List: secviz.org/mailinglist • Twitter: @secviz Share, discuss, challenge, and learn about security visualization.
- 27. 27 Visual Analytics - Delivering Actionable Security Intelligence July 22-25 2017, Las Vegas big data | analytics | visualization BlackHat Workshop
- 28. Sophos – Security Made Simple 28 • Products usable by non experts delightful for the security analyst • Consolidating security capabilities • Data science to SOLVE problems not to highlight issues Analytics UTM/Next-Gen Firewall Wireless Web Email Disk Encryption File Encryption Endpoint / Next-Gen Endpoint Mobile Server Sophos Central