A cybersecurity framework to GUArantee Reliability and trust for Digital service chains

Project Information

GUARD

Grant agreement ID: 833456

DOI

10.3030/833456

Project closed

EC signature date 25 April 2019

Start date 1 May 2019

End date 30 April 2022

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost

€ 5 448 071,43

EU contribution

€ 4 684 700,00

Coordinated by

MAGGIOLI SPA
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (14)

Evaluation Framework and Use Cases Planning

This report will describe the evaluation framework and validation methodology, defining the various practices for recording feedback from the demonstration activities and including the list of tests to be executed by the demonstrator partners.

Automatic Creation and Application of Actionable CTI

Description of algorithms designed in task T53 that enable automatic creation of actionable CTI from findings in raw data and implementation of proofofconcepts regarding the GUARD usecases and pilots

Project Impact Assessment

Qualitative and quantitative overall project impact assessment

Trust and Risk Assessment for Multi-Domain Business Service Chains

The description of formal methods algorithms and procedures elaborated in Task 54 for assessing trustworthiness and risks of business service chains

Final Communication and Dissemination Activities Report

it will describe the industry as well as scientific and technical dissemination clustering and standardization activities carried out in the second half of the project

Secure Chaining

Description of algorithms and procedures for chaining distributed services and tracing users data

Open APIs for Collecting Security Context in Distributed Systems

Specification of the open interfaces for gathering security context and exposing it to detection algorithms Compliance to this interface will permit interoperability between components developed and commercialized by different vendors

Security Context from Distributed Heterogeneous Systems

Description of the set of information data measurements and events available from distributed components for attack detection and threat identification

Information Sharing and CTI

Description of processes regarding sharing threat knowledge and consuming CTI

Attack Detection and Threat Identification in Large Distributed Systems

Description of the algorithms and methodologies elaborated in tasks 51 and 52

GUARD Reference Architecture

Specification of the GUARD reference architecture, to be used as a blueprint by the other WPs to define and develop the components under their responsibility. This will be a live specification, initially defined at M9 and then continuously updated according to the progress of the technical activities, using a spiral-like approach where the initial specification is coarse and at high-level and, as the time passes, gets refined with more details. The final architecture will be included in D2.3.

Vision, State of the Art and Requirements

The description of the GUARD vision and approach, analysis of the SoA, and technical requirements that will drive the implementation of the GUARD platform. This document will collect the outcomes from T2.1-T2.4. Requirements of the different stakeholders, which is one of the inputs to the design of the architecture, and the assessment procedures and metrics will be obtained through standard techniques (e.g. interviews with key stakeholders, focus groups, public consultations).

Mid-Term Communication and Dissemination Activities Report

It will describe the industry as well as scientific and technical dissemination, clustering and standardization activities carried out in the first half of the project

GUARD Technologies for Inspection, Monitoring and Enforcement

Description of tools technologies and frameworks developed by the GUARD partners for inspection monitoring and enforcement It also includes the description of the framework for data fusion and aggregation as well as identity management and access control

Publications

Other (1)

La sicurezza informatica dei nuovi servizi digitali: un nuovo approccio architetturale

Author(s): Raffaele Bolla, Maurizio Giribaldi, Giuseppe Piro, Matteo Repetto
Published in: ICT Security Magazine, 2019
Publisher: ICT Security Magazine

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Online Log Data Analysis With Efficient Machine Learning: A Review

Author(s): F. Skopik, M. Landauer and M. Wurzenberger
Published in: IEEE Security & Privacy, 2021, Page(s) 80-90, ISSN 1540-7993
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/msec.2021.3113275

Automating Mitigation of Amplification Attacks in NFV Services

Author(s): M. Repetto, G. Bruno, J. Yusupov, G. Lamanna, B. Ertl, and A. Carrega
Published in: Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2022, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tnsm.2022.3172880

Dealing with Security Alert Flooding: Using Machine Learning for Domain-independent Alert Aggregation

Author(s): Max Landauer, Florian Skopik, Markus Wurzenberger, Andreas Rauber
Published in: ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, Issue 25, 2022, Page(s) 1-36, ISSN 2471-2566
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3510581

Adaptive context‐aware service optimization in mobile cloud computing accounting for security aspects

Author(s): Piotr Nawrocki; Bartlomiej Sniezynski; Joanna Kolodziej; Pawel Szynkiewicz
Published in: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1532-0634
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.6070

System log clustering approaches for cyber security applications: A survey

Author(s): Max Landauer, Florian Skopik, Markus Wurzenberger, Andreas Rauber
Published in: Computers & Security, Issue 92, 2020, Page(s) 101739, ISSN 0167-4048
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2020.101739

Have it Your Way: Generating Customized Log Datasets With a Model-Driven Simulation Testbed

Author(s): M. Landauer, F. Skopik, M. Wurzenberger, W. Hotwagner and A. Rauber
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Issue 70, 2021, Page(s) 402-415, ISSN 0018-9529
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tr.2020.3031317

Blind Spots of Security Monitoring in Enterprise Infrastructures: A Survey

Author(s): F. Skopik, M. Landauer and M. Wurzenberger
Published in: IEEE Security & Privacy, 2022, Page(s) 2-10, ISSN 1540-7993
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/msec.2021.3133764

An Effective and Efficient Approach to Improve Visibility Over Network Communications

Author(s): M. Zuppelli, A. Carrega, M. Repetto
Published in: Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA), Issue vol 12, no. 4, 2021, Page(s) 89-108, ISSN 2093-5374
Publisher: Innovative Information Science & Technology Research Group (ISYOU)
DOI: 10.22667/jowua.2021.12.31.089

Intelligent Mobile Wireless Network for Toxic Gas Cloud Monitoring and Tracking.

Author(s): Mateusz Krzyszton; Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz
Published in: Sensors, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 3625, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s21113625

The Seven Golden Principles of Effective Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection

Author(s): F. Skopik, M. Wurzenberger and M. Landauer
Published in: IEEE Security & Privacy, 2021, Page(s) 36-45, ISSN 1540-7993
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/msec.2021.3090444

An Autonomous Cybersecurity Framework for Next-generation Digital Service Chains

Author(s): M. Repetto, D. Striccoli, G. Piro, A. Carrega, G. Boggia, R. Bolla
Published in: Journal of Network and Systems Management, Issue 29, 2021, Page(s) 37, ISSN 1064-7570
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10922-021-09607-7

An architecture to manage security operations for digital service chains

Author(s): Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Riccardo Rapuzzi
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Issue 115, 2021, Page(s) 251-266, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2020.08.044

Conference proceedings (23)

Evaluating ML-based DDoS Detection with Grid Search Hyperparameter Optimization

Author(s): Odnan Ref Sanchez; Matteo Repello; Alessandro Carrega; Raffaele Bolla
Published in: 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures (SecSoft), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/netsoft51509.2021.9492633

bccstego: A Framework for Investigating Network Covert Channels

Author(s): Matteo Repetto; Luca Caviglione; Marco Zuppelli
Published in: The 5th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2021), co-located with The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), 2021
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3465481.3470028

A Framework for Cyber Threat Intelligence Extraction from Raw Log Data

Author(s): Landauer M., Skopik F. , Wurzenberger M., Hotwagner W., Rauber A.
Published in: International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Threat Hunting (CyberHunt 2019), 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9006328

Machine learning techniques for transmission parameters classification in multi-agent managed network

Author(s): Dariusz Zelasko, Pawel Plawiak, Joanna Kolodziej
Published in: 2020 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2020, Page(s) 699-707, ISBN 978-1-7281-6095-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid49817.2020.00-20

Attestation of Trusted and Reliable Service Function Chains in the ETSI-NFV Framework

Author(s): Antonio Suriano, Domenico Striccoli, Giuseppe Piro, Raffele Bolla, Gennaro Boggia
Published in: 2020 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2020, Page(s) 479-486, ISBN 978-1-7281-5684-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/netsoft48620.2020.9165316

Visualizing Syscalls using Self-organizing Maps for System Intrusion Detection

Author(s): Max Landauer, Florian Skopik, Markus Wurzenberger, Wolfgang Hotwagner, Andreas Rauber
Published in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, 2020, Page(s) 349-360, ISBN 978-989-758-399-5
Publisher: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
DOI: 10.5220/0008918703490360

Leveraging the 5G architecture to mitigate amplification attacks

Author(s): Matteo Repetto; Alessandro Carrega; G. Lamanna; Jaloliddin Yusupov; Orazio Toscano; Gianmarco Bruno; Michele Nuovo; Marco Cappelli
Published in: 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures (SecSoft), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4967169

Adaptive context-aware energy optimization for services on mobile devices with use of machine learning considering security aspects

Author(s): Piotr Nawrocki, Bartlomiej Sniezynski, Joanna Kolodziej, Pawel Szynkiewicz
Published in: 2020 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2020, Page(s) 708-717, ISBN 978-1-7281-6095-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid49817.2020.00-19

Real-Time Scheduling in Drop Computing

Author(s): S. -E. Nistor et al.
Published in: 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 2021, Page(s) 720-727
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid51090.2021.00087

Data Log Management for Cyber-Security Programmability of Cloud Services and Applications

Author(s): Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Workshop on Cyber-Security Arms Race - CYSARM'19, 2019, Page(s) 47-52, ISBN 9781450368407
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3338511.3357351

The Cookie Hunter: Automated Black-box Auditing for Web Authentication and Authorization Flaws

Author(s): Kostas Drakonakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Jason Polakis
Published in: 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS2020), 2020, Page(s) 1953–1970, ISSN 978-1-4503-70899
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3372297.3417869

Automated Security Management for Virtual Services

Author(s): M. Repetto, A. Carrega, J. Yusupov, F. Valenza, F. Risso, G. Lamanna
Published in: 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2019, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-7281-4545-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN47374.2019.9040069

Towards Novel Security Architectures for Network Functions Virtualization

Author(s): M. Repetto, A. Carrega, G. Lamanna
Published in: 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2019, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-7281-4545-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/nfv-sdn47374.2019.9040068

Security-aware job allocation in mobile cloud computing

Author(s): P. Nawrocki, J. Pajor, B. Sniezynski and J. Kolodziej
Published in: 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 2021, Page(s) 713-719
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid51090.2021.00086

Detecting Covert Channels Through Code Augmentation

Author(s): M. Zuppelli, L. Caviglione, M. Repetto
Published in: Italian Conference on CyberSecurity (ITASEC), Issue 2940, 2021, Page(s) 133-144
Publisher: CEUR

A Novel Cyber-Security Framework Leveraging Programmable Capabilities in Digital Services

Author(s): Repetto, Matteo; Carrega, Alessandro; Duzha, Armend
Published in: 4th Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ItaSec2020), 2019
Publisher: CEUR
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4267987

An architecture to manage security services for cloud applications

Author(s): M. Repetto, A. Carrega, G. Lamanna
Published in: 2019 4th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Security (ICCCS), 2019, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-7281-0875-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCCS.2019.8888061

Security aspects in blockchain-based scheduling in mobile multi-cloud computing

Author(s): Andrzej Wilczyński; Joanna Kołodziej; Daniel Grzonka
Published in: 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 2021, Page(s) 696-703
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid51090.2021.00084

A Framework for Automatic Labeling of Log Datasets from Model-driven Testbeds for HIDS Evaluation

Author(s): Max Landauer, Maximilian Frank, Florian Skopik, Wolfgang Hotwagner, Markus Wurzenberger, Andreas Rauber
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems, 2022, Page(s) 77-86
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3510547.3517924

Authentication and Authorization in Cyber-Security Frameworks: a Novel Approach for Securing Digital Service Chains

Author(s): G. Grieco, D. Striccoli, G. Piro, R. Bolla, G. Boggia, and L. A. Grieco
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2022
Publisher: IEEE

Feature Selection Evaluation towards a Lightweight Deep Learning DDoS Detector

Author(s): Odnan Ref Sanchez; Matteo Repetto; Alessandro Carrega; Raffaele Bolla; Jane Frances Pajo
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Issue 2022, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4967143

Creating Character-based Templates for Log Data to Enable Security Event Classification

Author(s): Markus Wurzenberger, Georg Höld, Max Landauer, Florian Skopik, Wolfgang Kastner
Published in: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2020, Page(s) 141-152, ISBN 9781450367509
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3320269.3384722

Iterative Selection of Categorical Variables for Log Data Anomaly Detection

Author(s): Max Landauer, Georg Höld, Markus Wurzenberger, Florian Skopik, and Andreas Rauber
Published in: Computer Security – ESORICS 2021: 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2021
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88418-5_36

Book chapters (2)

Monitoring Network Flows in Containerized Environments

Author(s): M. Repetto, A. Carrega
Published in: Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains. Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools, ( J.Kolodziej et al. Eds.), Issue LNCS, volume 13300, 2022, Page(s) 32-55, ISBN 978-3-031-04036-8
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04036-8_2

A Reference Architecture for Management of Security Operations in Digital Service Chains

Author(s): A. Carrega, G. Grieco, D. Striccoli, M. Papoutsakis, T. Lima, J. I. Carretero, M. Repetto
Published in: Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains. Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools, ( J.Kolodziej et al. Eds.), Issue LNCS, volume 13300, 2022, Page(s) 1-31, ISBN 978-3-031-04036-8
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04036-8_1

Monographic books (2)

Smart Log Data Analytics: Techniques for Advanced Security Analysis

Author(s): Florian Skopik, Markus Wurzenberger, Max Landauer
Published in: 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-74449-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74450-2

Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains: Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools

Author(s): Joanna Kołodziej, Matteo Repetto, Armend Duzha
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) XI, 257, ISBN 978-3-031-04035-1
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04036-8