Study on InstaHide's security, linking to phase retrieval problem.
problem Security of InstaHide scheme for private dataset sharing.
method Design of a provable algorithm for private vector recovery.
result Private vectors can be recovered using synthetic vectors and public vectors.
Study assesses risks of European Safe Bonds using credit risk models.
problem Risks associated with European Safe Bonds and related securities.
method Affine credit risk model with regime switching.
result ESBies are not truly risk-free, impacting market and policy implications.
In this paper, we introduce Anomaly Contribution Explainer or ACE, a tool to explain security anomaly detection models in terms of the model features through a regression framework, and its variant, ACE-KL, which highlights the important anomaly contributors. ACE and ACE-KL provide insights in diagnosing which attribut…
To accommodate heterogeneous tasks in Internet of Things (IoT), a new communication and computing paradigm termed mobile edge computing emerges that extends computing services from the cloud to edge, but at the same time exposes new challenges on security. The present paper studies online security-aware edge computing …
Paper revisits PCA for anomaly detection in network security.
problem Understanding and improving anomaly detection in network security.
method Revisit probabilistic PCA model and its connection to MSNM framework.
result Mathematical model connects PCA to MSNM for anomaly detection.
Performing supervised learning from the data synthesized by using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), dubbed GAN-synthetic data, has two important applications. First, GANs may generate more labeled training data, which may help improve classification accuracy. Second, in scenarios where real data cannot be release…
Differentially private method for synthetic data generation from vertically partitioned data.
problem Generating synthetic data from vertically partitioned data while preserving privacy.
method Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) algorithm combined with secure multiparty computation (MPC).
result Comparable accuracy to non-partitioned data, demonstrating privacy-preserving synthetic data generation.
Paper evaluates synthetic retail data for fidelity, utility, and privacy.
problem Ensuring accurate synthetic data in retail.
method Differentiates between continuous and discrete data, measures fidelity and utility, and uses Differential Privacy for privacy.
result Validated framework for reliable and scalable synthetic data evaluation.
Synthetic data improves credit scoring models' performance without compromising borrower privacy.
problem Scarcity of real data for credit scoring models due to privacy concerns.
method Privacy-preserving training with synthetic data.
result Credit scoring models trained with synthetic data show a reduction of 3% in AUC and 6% in KS compared to real data models.
The rapid digital transformation without security considerations has resulted in the rise of global-scale cyberattacks. The first line of defense against these attacks are Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Once deployed, however, these systems work as blackboxes with a high rate of false positives with no mea…
DP-FedTabDiff generates private synthetic tabular data using diffusion models and differential privacy.
problem Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation for tabular data in regulated domains.
method Combines Differential Privacy, Federated Learning, and Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models.
result Achieves significant privacy improvements without compromising data quality.
DSLOB creates synthetic LOB data for benchmarking forecasting algorithms under distributional shifts.
problem Challenges in dealing with out-of-distribution limit order book data.
method Multi-agent market simulator to create labeled synthetic LOB dataset with and without market stress.
result Demonstrates the need for robust forecasting algorithms to handle distributional shifts.
Optimizes a portfolio for an investor preferring accepted securities over a reference security.
problem Investor preference for a set of securities over a reference security with constraints.
method Mean-variance optimization with Sharpe Ratio performance measurement.
result Derives an optimal portfolio that maximizes returns while minimizing risk.
Study on how many queries an adversary needs to make to match the best attack in white-box model.
problem Query complexity of adversarial attacks in machine learning models.
method Investigates the number of queries required for an adversary to match the best possible attack in the white-box model, using entropy of decision boundaries as a measure.
result Lower bound on the number of queries required for an adversary to match the best possible attack in the white-box model.
Paper proposes CCVAE for generalized zero-shot domain adaptation.
problem Adapting to unseen classes in target domain with limited labeled data.
method Coupled Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CCVAE).
result CCVAE generates synthetic target domain features for unseen classes.
Paper generates synthetic radar signatures for motion classification.
problem Lack of large training datasets for radar-based human activity recognition.
method Adversarial learning for synthetic data generation, kinematic sifting for consistency.
result 93% overall accuracy achieved on diverse aspect angles.
Study introduces UEBA framework using Deep Autoencoders for anomaly detection.
problem Detecting security incidents in cybersecurity.
method Combines Deep Autoencoders with Doc2Vec for anomaly detection.
result Demonstrates effective detection of real and synthetic anomalies.
The use of synthetic data generated by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has become quite a popular method to do data augmentation for many applications. While practitioners celebrate this as an economical way to get more synthetic data that can be used to train downstream classifiers, it is not clear that they re…
Study shows Bitcoin security tied to mining rewards and prices.
problem Understanding Bitcoin security's dependency on market outcomes.
method Used ARDL approach with daily blockchain and Bitcoin data from 2014-2019.
result Bitcoin security outcomes linked to Bitcoin price and mining rewards.
A pair of points in a riemannian manifold makes a secure configuration if the totality of geodesics connecting them can be blocked by a finite set. The manifold is secure if every configuration is secure. We investigate the security of compact, locally symmetric spaces.
The accurate measurement of security metrics is a critical research problem because an improper or inaccurate measurement process can ruin the usefulness of the metrics, no matter how well they are defined. This is a highly challenging problem particularly when the ground truth is unknown or noisy. In contrast to the w…
We say that a pair of points x and y is secure if there exist a finite set of blocking points such that any geodesic between x and y passes through one of the blocking points. The main point of this paper is to exhibit new examples of blocking phenomena both in the manifold and the billiard table setting. As an approac…
Industry lacks tools to secure ML systems, study finds.
problem Insufficient security tools for ML systems in industry.
method Interviews with 28 organizations to identify gaps.
result Need revised Security Development Lifecycle for ML.
Sparse oblique decision tree improves security rules for renewable power systems.
problem Identifying secure operating conditions in power systems with high renewable energy.
method Sparse weighted oblique decision tree to learn and embed linear security rules.
result The method significantly increases secure states and reduces solution time.
Paper uses GNNs to automatically detect botnets from network data.
problem Detecting botnets from network data using traditional methods is challenging.
method Synthesized botnet connections, tailored graph neural networks (GNNs), and deep learning.
result GNNs outperform traditional methods in botnet detection.
RL models improve target control in SSGs for security applications.
problem Improving RL algorithms for target control in SSGs.
method Investigates improvements to target representations in RL algorithms.
result Enhanced RL models control targets better in SSGs.
The exponential increase in dependencies between the cyber and physical world leads to an enormous amount of data which must be efficiently processed and stored. Therefore, computing paradigms are evolving towards machine learning (ML)-based systems because of their ability to efficiently and accurately process the eno…
A riemannian manifold is secure if the geodesics between any pair of points in the manifold can be blocked by a finite number of point obstacles. Compact, flat manifolds are secure. A standing conjecture says that these are the only secure, compact riemannian manifolds. The conjecture claims, in particular, that a riem…
New model values equity-linked securities with guaranteed return.
problem Valuation of equity-linked securities with guaranteed return.
method Replicate security price as sum of guaranteed amount and Asian style option price on basket.
result Analytical formulas derived for security price and hedge ratios.
Securely trains regression models with secret sharing for data collaboration.
problem Balancing data collaboration for technological improvements with security concerns.
method Secret sharing scheme for scalable and efficient secure multiparty training.
result Scalable and efficient protocols for training linear and logistic regression models.
Paper proposes a secure protocol for federated learning.
problem Combining robustness, privacy, and security in federated learning.
method Secure two-server protocol for federated learning.
result Offers both input privacy and Byzantine-robustness.
GAN improves financial risk prediction by generating synthetic minority events.
problem Data imbalance in financial market supervision.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to generate synthetic data.
result GAN-generated synthetic data significantly improves prediction accuracy.
Study quantized models' privacy against membership inference attacks.
problem Privacy risk in quantized machine learning models.
method Proposed a new MIS indicator for post-training quantization procedures, minimizing empirical loss.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of new MIS indicator in assessing and ranking privacy risk.
Proposes a secure communication method independent of eavesdropper's decoder.
problem Lack of practical security constraints in existing methods.
method Dual MINE-based neural secure communications model.
result Security performance is not affected by eavesdropper's decoding means.
Most of the existing solutions to enterprise threat management are preventive approaches prescribing means to prevent policy violations with varying degrees of success. In this paper we consider the complementary scenario where a number of security violations have already occurred, or security threats, or vulnerabiliti…
Explores security challenges of machine learning in real-world systems.
problem Vulnerabilities in machine learning models deployed in safety-critical systems.
method Broadens systems security view of ML vulnerabilities, identifies novel challenges, proposes mitigation suggestions.
result Highlights novel challenges and proposes mitigation strategies for securing ML systems.
Deep learning is increasingly used as a building block of security systems. Unfortunately, neural networks are hard to interpret and typically opaque to the practitioner. The machine learning community has started to address this problem by developing methods for explaining the predictions of neural networks. While sev…
In this paper are presented methods of impact analysis on informatics system security accidents, qualitative and quantitative methods, starting with risk and informational system security definitions. It is presented the relationship between the risks of exploiting vulnerabilities of security system, security level of …
Blockchain aims to improve trust in AI systems, but lacks systematic studies.
problem Lack of systematic studies on blockchain design principles for AI trust.
method Hybrid qualitative and quantitative studies.
result Vast opportunities for future research and practice in blockchain design.
This paper discusses adversarial attacks on cyber security systems using machine learning.
problem Adversarial attacks limit the use of machine learning in cyber security.
method Characterizes adversarial attack methods and their applications in cyber security.
result Highlights unique challenges and future research directions for adversarial attacks in cyber security.
Unified market-based description of returns and variances of trades.
problem Market-based variance of trades and market portfolio.
method Unified market-based approach to describe returns and variances of trades and market portfolio.
result Market-based variance accounts for random volumes of trades and differs from Markowitz's portfolio variance.
We propose a new randomized ensemble technique with a provable security guarantee against black-box transfer attacks. Our proof constructs a new security problem for random binary classifiers which is easier to empirically verify and a reduction from the security of this new model to the security of the ensemble classi…
Investigates the cost-effectiveness of security features in smart card chips.
problem Costs of adding security features to smart card chips.
method Examines production phases, costs, and security features.
result Security features are worth the cost due to potential damages from attacks.
We develop a secure aggregation protocol for federated learning that reduces communication and computation costs.
problem Expensive communication and privacy concerns in federated learning.
method Adapting compression-based federated techniques to additive secret sharing.
result Our protocol achieves high accuracy with low communication costs and is more efficient than prior work.
Contextual bandit framework improves revenue optimization in securities lending market.
problem Optimizing revenue for agent lenders in a dynamic securities lending market.
method Utilized contextual bandit frameworks to address dynamic pricing problems in an e-commerce-like securities lending market.
result Contextual bandit approach consistently outperforms traditional methods by at least 15% in total revenue generated.
Study assesses how much security restaking protocols need to pay for.
problem Determining the optimal security level for restaking protocols using token incentives.
method Expanding a model by Durvasula and Roughgarden to include strategic attackers and node operators, constructing an approximation algorithm for token-based incentives.
result Restaking protocols can be secure with proper incentive management, even against strategic adversaries.
The future Internet of Things (IoT) will have a deep economical, commercial and social impact on our lives. The participating nodes in IoT networks are usually resource-constrained, which makes them luring targets for cyber attacks. In this regard, extensive efforts have been made to address the security and privacy is…
Survey examines ML for IoT security, addressing new challenges.
problem IoT security challenges due to rapid growth and diverse attacks.
method Comprehensive literature review of ML-based security solutions.
result ML provides dynamic and efficient security for IoT.