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Semantics for Big Data (,) Security and Privacy
Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore MD
NSF Workshop on Big Data Security and Privacy
2014-09-16, University of Texas at Dallas
http://ebiq.org/r/363
The plot outline
• Big data
→ Variety
→ Need for integration & fusion
→ Must understand data semantics
→ Use semantic languages & tools (reasoners, ML)
→ Have shared ontologies & background knowledge
• Relevance to security and privacy
–Protect personal information, especially in mobile/IOT scenarios
–Better intrusion detection systems
Use Case Examples
We’ve used semantic technologies in support of assured information tasks including
– Representing & enforcing information sharing policies
– Negotiating for cloud services respecting organizational constraints (e.g., data privacy, location, …)
– Modeling context for mobile users and using this to manage information sharing
– Acquiring, using and sharing knowledge for situationally-aware intrusion detection systems
Key technologies include Semantic Web languages (OWL, RDF) and tools and information extraction from text
Context-Aware Privacy and Security
• Smart mobile devices know a great deal about their users, including their current context
• Acquiring and using this knowledge helps them provide better services
• Sharing the information with other users, organizations and service providers can also be beneficial (Mobile Ad-Hoc Knowledge Networks)
• Context-aware policies can be used to limit information sharing as well as to control the actions and information access of mobile apps
We’re in a two-hour budget meeting at X with A, B and C
We’re in a impor-tant meeting
We’re busy
http://ebiq.org/p/589
Context-aware power management • Maintaining context model uses power
• We empirically determine power usage for a phone’s sensors and use this for optimization
Context-aware power management
• Maintaining the context model use power
• We developed an accurate power models for a phone’s sensors and use this for optimization
When updating context model 1. Only enable sensors required by policy, reuse
recent sensor readings whenever appropriate e.g., disable GPS sensor when at home in evening
2. Prefer sensors with lower energy footprint or already in use when several available
e.g., Choose Wifi to GPS for location at office during day
3.Reorder rule conditions to reduce energy use e.g., Check conditions requiring no sensor access first
http://ebiq.org/p/632
Intrusion Detection Systems • Current intrusion detection systems poor for
zero-day and “low and slow” attacks, and APTs
• Sharing Information from heterogeneous data sources can provide useful information even when an attack signature is unavailable
• Implemented prototypes that integrate and reason over data from IDSs, host and network scanners, and text at the knowledge level
• We’ve established the feasibility of the approach in simple evaluation experiments
From dashboards & watchstanding
(Simple) Analysis
… to situational awareness
Non Traditional “Sensors”
Traditional Sensors
Facts / Information
Context/Situation
Rules
Policies
Analytics
Alerts
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 ….
[ a IDPS:text_entity; IDPS:has_vulnerability_term "true"; IDPS:has_security_exploit "true"; IDPS:has_text “Internet Explorer"; IDPS:has_text “arbitrary code "; IDPS:has_text "remote attackers".] [ a IDPS:system; IDPS:host_IP "130.85.93.105”.] [ a IDPS:scannerLog IDPS:scannerLogIP "130.85.93.105"; …] [ a IDPS:gatewayLog IDPS:gatewayLogIP "130.85.93.105"; …]
[ IDPS:scannerLog IDPS:hasBrowser ?Browser IDPS:gatewayLog IDPS:hasURL ?URL ?URL IDPS:hasSymantecRating “unsafe” IDPS: scannerLog IDPS:hasOutboundConnection “true” IDPS:WiresharkLog IDPS:isConnectedTo ?IPAddress ?IPAddress IDSP:isZombieAddress “true”] => [IDPS:system IDPS:isUnderAttack “user-after-free vulnerability” IDPS:attack IDPS:hasMeans “Backdoor” IDPS:attack IDPS:hasConsequence “UnautorizedRemoteAccess”]
http://ebiq.org/p/604
Maintaining the vulnerability KB • Our approach requires us to keep the KB of
software products and known or suspected vulnerabilities and attacks up to date
• Resources like NVD are great, but tapping into text can enrich their info and give earlier warn-ings of problems
CVE disclosed (01/14/13)
Vendor deploys software
Attacker finds vuln. & exploits it (01/10/13)
Exploit reported in mailing list
(01/10/13) Vuln. reported in NVD RSS feed
Analysis
Vuln. Analyzed & included in NVD feed
(02/16/2013)
Vendor Analysis
Threat disclosed in vendor bulletin
(03/04/2013)
Patch development
Patch released (Critical Patch Update)
(06/18/2013)
Resolution
System update
Information extraction from text
CVE-2012-0150 Buffer overflow in msvcrt.dll in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted media file, aka ”Msvcrt.dll Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.”
ebqids:hasMeans
Identify relationships
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Buffer_overflow
Link concepts to entities
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Windows_7
ebqids:affectsProduct
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arbitrary_code_execution
• We use information extraction techniques to identify
entities, relations and concepts in security related text
• These are mapped to terms in our ontology and the
DBpedia LOD KB (based on Wikipedia)
• Google’s slogan: “Things, not strings”
Security
Bulletins Blogs
Maintaining the vulnerability KB
Unstructured
Data (Vuln.
Summaries) Entity & Concept
Spotter
Extracted Concepts
<Concept, Class>
Web Text
Triple Store
NVD dataset
Structured
Data (XML)
IDS Ontology Linked
Cybersecurity
Data
Consumers
Linking &
Mapping Entities
RDF Generation
http://ebiq.org/p/629
Faceblock
http://ebiq.org/p/666
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Faceblock Ontology Faceblock’s (OWL) ontology lets one to write context policy rules using predefined activity and place types
Faceblock Ontology Faceblock’s (OWL) ontology lets one to write context policy rules using predefined activity and place types
Faceblock Protocols
User device maintains context, reasons with policy rules and informs glass devices of Faceblock property: True or Fase
Taming Wild Big Data
• WBD is structured or semi-structured data for which we lack schema-level understanding
–e.g, raw tables, graphs, xml, logs
• Developed tools to generate semantic data from background ontologies & KBs, e.g. for clinical trial tables
• It’s harder when the domain is not even known. We’re developing systems that use large background KBs (e.g., Google’s Freebase) to predict types/subtypes of data instances
http://ebiq.org/p/672 http://ebiq.org/p/661
Conclusion
• Google’s new slogan: things, not strings
• We also need: measurements, not numbers
• Common ontologies in semantic representations enable big data integration at a “knowledge level”
–data, meta-data, provenance, certainty, rules
• Many advantages:
–Enhancing discovery, integration and interoperability
–Enabling inference and knowledge-level analytics
–Expressing policy constraints in common semantic terms
http://ebiq.org/r/363