Benjamin Liebald, Dan Roth, Neelay Shah and Vivek Srikumar (Authors listed alphabetically)
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.

Abstract

Machine learning systems are deployed in many adversarial conditions like intrusion detection, where a classifier has to decide whether a sequence of actions come from a legitimate user or not. However, the attacker, being an adversarial agent, could reverse engineer the classifier and successfully masquerade as a legitimate user. In this paper, we propose the notion of a Proactive Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that can counter such attacks by incorporating feedback into the process. A proactive IDS influences the user's actions and observes them in different situations to decide whether the user is an intruder. We present a formal analysis of proactive intrusion detection and extend the adversarial relationship between the IDS and the attacker to present a game theoretic analysis. Finally, we present experimental results on real and synthetic data that confirm the predictions of the analysis.

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@inproceedings{liebald2008proactive,
  author = {Liebald, Benjamin and Roth, Dan and Shah, Neelay and Srikumar, Vivek},
  title = {{Proactive Intrusion Detection}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2008}
}