Conference Papers Year : 2024

Cyber Key Terrain Identification Using Adjusted PageRank Centrality

Abstract

The cyber terrain contains devices, network services, cyber personas, and other network entities involved in network operations. Designing a method that automatically identifies key network entities to network operations is challenging. However, such a method is essential for determining which cyber assets should the cyber defense focus on. In this paper, we propose an approach for the classification of IP addresses belonging to cyber key terrain according to their network position using the PageRank centrality computation adjusted by machine learning. We used hill climbing and random walk algorithms to distinguish PageRank’s damping factors based on source and destination ports captured in IP flows. The one-time learning phase on a static data sample allows near-real-time stream-based classification of key hosts from IP flow data in operational conditions without maintaining a complete network graph. We evaluated the approach on a dataset from a cyber defense exercise and on data from the campus network. The results show that cyber key terrain identification using the adjusted computation of centrality is more precise than its original version.
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hal-04953435 , version 1 (18-02-2025)

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Lukáš Sadlek, Pavel Čeleda. Cyber Key Terrain Identification Using Adjusted PageRank Centrality. 38th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC), Jun 2023, Poznan, Poland. pp.293-306, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-56326-3_21⟩. ⟨hal-04953435⟩
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