학술논문

Automatic Detection of Abstract–Concrete Relationships between Attack Patterns of ATT&CK and CAPEC with Fine-tuned BERT
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 10th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA) DSA Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA), 2023 10th International Conference on. :589-590 Aug, 2023
Subject
Computing and Processing
Databases
Bidirectional control
Transformers
Encoding
Delays
Complexity theory
Security
ATT&CK
CAPEC
relation prediction
Transformer
BERT
Language
ISSN
2767-6684
Abstract
Security threats and attacks have recently increased in complexity, requiring rapid understanding of vulnerabilities and responses to attacks. ATT&CK and CAPEC are databases that compile attack patterns against vulnerabilities and help develop countermeasures and defenses in the security domain. Although the relationships between attack patterns are defined in these databases, the databases are manually manipulated, potentially resulting in delays in reflecting information and in relationship omissions. This paper proposes applying fine-tuned bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) to use ATT&CK, CAPEC, and their combined datasets to detect abstract–concrete relationships between attack patterns. In our evaluation, the model trained on the combined dataset of ATT&CK and CAPEC achieved the highest accuracy. For the models trained on each individual dataset, differences in the similarity of the attack pattern pair descriptions between ATT&CK and CAPEC resulted in differences in the accuracy of the binary classification task.