用大模型自动做个性化权限决策,提升安全又减负。
Can LLMs Make (Personalized) Access Control Decisions?
- 用大模型分析应用上下文和用户隐私偏好做权限判断
- 通用模型与用户一致率达86%,个性化模型更贴合个人习惯
- 适合研究人机安全决策、开发智能权限系统者阅读
精确的访问控制对传统应用和新兴代理系统安全至关重要。通常由用户在安装应用或运行时做出决策,但随着系统复杂度与自动化程度提升,用户面临巨大认知负担,常导致次优甚至随意选择。为此,我们研究大模型在轻量设置后,基于用户安全偏好动态做出上下文感知决策的能力。以智能手机应用权限请求为案例,我们收集了307条用户隐私声明(自然语言描述)和14,682条对应权限决策数据。对比通用大模型与个性化大模型(融入用户偏好)的决策表现,并对其中1,298个决策收集用户反馈。结果显示,大模型普遍能较好反映用户偏好,与多数决策一致率达86%;个性化模型能引导用户更安全行为。但个性化也存在权衡:严格遵循用户偏好可能导致过度授权,反而降低安全性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Precise access control decisions are crucial for the security of both traditional applications and emerging agent-based systems. Typically, these decisions are made by users during app installation or at runtime. However, due to the increasing complexity and automation of systems, making access control decisions can impose a significant cognitive burden on users, often overwhelming them and leading to suboptimal or even arbitrary choices. To address this problem, we investigate the ability of LLMs to make dynamic, context-aware decisions aligned with users' security preferences, expressed during a lightweight setup phase. As a case study, we analyze smartphone application permission requests, given their ubiquity and users' familiarity with them. We curated a dataset comprising 307 user privacy statements (short, natural-language descriptions of user preferences) and 14,682 corresponding permission decisions, gathered from smartphone users in an online data collection. We compare these decisions with those made by two versions of LLMs that are tasked with reasoning about the app and the request context: a general model and a personalized one (which incorporates user preferences). For the latter, we also collected user feedback on 1,298 of its decisions. Our results show that LLMs generally reflect users' preferences well, agreeing with the majority decision in up to 86% of cases, and can steer users toward safer behavior. However, the results also reveal a key trade-off in personalization: while incorporating user-specific privacy preferences improves agreement with individual decisions, strict adherence to these preferences may lead to less safe outcomes, as users tend to over-permission.
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