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HPI Sec-Eng General Thesis Posting GraphAnalytics

This document proposes a master's thesis on using graph analytics for cybersecurity. It discusses modeling security data as graphs, establishing graph analytics for threat detection, and investigating how graph modeling and analytics can enhance cybersecurity solutions. The goals are to study graph modeling and analytics in cybersecurity and propose methods to apply these techniques.

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HPI Sec-Eng General Thesis Posting GraphAnalytics

This document proposes a master's thesis on using graph analytics for cybersecurity. It discusses modeling security data as graphs, establishing graph analytics for threat detection, and investigating how graph modeling and analytics can enhance cybersecurity solutions. The goals are to study graph modeling and analytics in cybersecurity and propose methods to apply these techniques.

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Graph Analytics for Cybersecurity

-- Proposal for Master Thesis in 2021/2022

IT Security Engineering (Sec-Eng) Team


Prof. Meinel‘s Chair „Internet Systems and Technologies“
Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Motivation

■ To Model as much as possible Security-relevant Data into Graph,


e.g., Attack Graph, CTI Knowledge Graph, etc.
□ Environmental (infrastructure) data: networks, hosts, applications, users, ...
□ CTI/OSINT: e.g., vulnerabilities, weaknesses, attack Techniques and Tactics, IOCs, …
□ Runtime data: alerts, logs, traffics, memory snapshots, process lists, ...

Attack Graph and


Graph Analytics
for Cybersecurity |
MT2021-22 |
Sec-Eng@HPI

■ To Establish effective Graph Analytics for Threat Detection/Hunting:


□ Graph-based Reasoning, Partitioning, Clustering, Machine Learning,
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Outlier/Anomaly Detection, ......
Goals

■ study and evaluate the state-of-the-art theories and practices of


Graph Modeling & Analytics;

■ investigate and showcase the feasibilities and benefits to apply Graph


Modeling & Analytics in the domain of cybersecurity;

■ propose and conceptualize methods to enhance existing cybersecurity


Attack Graph and
solutions (e.g., some mainstreaming SIEM systems) using new graph Graph Analytics
modeling & analytics techniques for Cybersecurity |
MT2021-22 |
Sec-Eng@HPI

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Research Topics

■ Topic 1: Attack Graph and Graph modeling of security relevant data


□ Newly available data sources
□ Graph representation of heterogeneous data
□ Efficient Graph construction

■ Topic 2: Recent advancements on graph theories and techniques


□ Graph-based data structures and Graph specific algorithms
□ Graph data engineering: database, operations, visualization, SIEM built- Attack Graph and
Graph Analytics
in Graph capabilities, ... for Cybersecurity |
MT2021-22 |
Sec-Eng@HPI
■ Topic 3: Graph analytics for advanced threat detection
□ reasoning, correlations, partition, mining,....
□ performance, scalability, ... 4
Organization

■ Requirements:
□ M.Sc. Programs: Cybersecurity, IT Systems Eng., or Data Eng.
□ (Expected) knowledge and experiences/skills on
– Network/System/Application security, IT/Security operations and
management, (Big) Data science and engineering, etc.

■ Deliverables:
□ Master Thesis
Attack Graph and
□ running prototype Graph Analytics
for Cybersecurity |
□ Scientific publications on international conferences/journals (expected) MT2021-22 |
Sec-Eng@HPI

■ Supervision:
□ Sec-Eng@HPI: Dr. Feng Cheng, Pejman Najafi 5
□ Cybersecurity/Data Engineering experts from our project partners
Thank you for your attention!

HPI IT Security Engineering (Sec-Eng) Team


Hasso-Plattner-Institut at University of Potsdam
Campus Griebnitzsee, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
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Email: [email protected]
Online Services: https://sec.hpi.de

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