Summary of Noise Contrastive Estimation-based Matching Framework For Low-resource Security Attack Pattern Recognition, by Tu Nguyen et al.
Noise Contrastive Estimation-based Matching Framework for Low-Resource Security Attack Pattern Recognition
by Tu Nguyen, Nedim Šrndić, Alexander Neth
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed neural matching architecture tackles the challenging task of identifying Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) in cybersecurity writing. Conventional approaches often fail due to the large number of classes, skewed label distribution, and complex hierarchical structure. The authors formulate the problem as a semantic similarity-based learning paradigm, reducing complexity by focusing on direct similarities between texts and TTP labels. A sampling-based learn-to-compare mechanism facilitates the learning process despite resource constraints. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers has developed a new way to find patterns in cybersecurity writing. They called these patterns Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs). It’s like trying to find specific words or phrases in a big book that helps hackers attack computers. The problem is that there are many different types of TTPs, and most learning approaches can’t handle all those possibilities. To solve this problem, the researchers came up with a new way of thinking about how to learn from texts. Instead of trying to figure out which category each text belongs to, they looked at how similar each text is to the categories. This makes it easier for computers to learn and understand what the different TTPs mean. |
