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Third International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2007)

University of Delhi — Delhi India, December 17th 2007
Tutorial: Application of Data Mining Techniques for Computer Security
Professor Jaideep Srivastava

Abstract: Today computers control power, oil and gas delivery, communication systems, transportation networks, banking and financial services, and various other infrastructure services critical to the functioning of our society. However, as the cost of the information processing and Internet accessibility falls, more and more organizations are becoming vulnerable to a wide variety of cyber threats. According to CERT/CC (Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center), the rate of cyber attacks has been more than doubling every year for some time. It has become increasingly important to make our information systems, especially those used for critical functions in the military and commercial sectors, resistant to and tolerant of such attacks. Intrusion detection, as a special form of cyber threat analysis, includes identifying a set of malicious actions that compromise the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of information resources. Traditional methods for intrusion detection are based on extensive knowledge of signatures of known attacks. The signature database has to be manually revised for each new type of intrusion that is discovered. A significant limitation of signature-based methods is that they cannot detect emerging cyber threats, since by their very nature these threats are launched using previously unknown attacks. http://siis.cse.psu.edu/iciss07/index.html