用多模态大模型补全缺失的工控系统架构,实现精准风险评估。
From Incomplete Architecture to Quantified Risk: Multimodal LLM-Driven Security Assessment for Cyber-Physical Systems
- 通过提示链与少样本学习,从碎片化数据中重建系统架构
- 在多个工控案例中实现攻击面识别与量化风险估算
- 适合安全评估人员在文档缺失时快速开展风险分析
工控系统常因遗留技术、知识管理缺口及长期集成复杂性导致架构文档不完整或过时,影响安全评估可靠性。本文提出基于多模态大模型的架构驱动安全威胁风险评估方法ASTRAL,通过提示链、少样本学习和架构推理,从分散数据源中提取并合成系统表征。结合大模型推理与架构建模,支持动态威胁识别与量化风险估计。我们在多个工控案例上进行消融实验,并邀请14名资深网络安全专家参与评估。实践反馈表明ASTRAL能有效辅助架构导向的安全评估,整体结果支持更明智的网络风险决策。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Cyber-physical systems often contend with incomplete architectural documentation or outdated information resulting from legacy technologies, knowledge management gaps, and the complexity of integrating diverse subsystems over extended operational lifecycles. This architectural incompleteness impedes reliable security assessment, as inaccurate or missing architectural knowledge limits the identification of system dependencies, attack surfaces, and risk propagation pathways. To address this foundational challenge, this paper introduces ASTRAL (Architecture-Centric Security Threat Risk Assessment using LLMs), an architecture-centric security assessment technique implemented in a prototype tool powered by multimodal LLMs. The proposed approach assists practitioners in reconstructing and analysing CPS architectures when documentation is fragmented or absent. By leveraging prompt chaining, few-shot learning, and architectural reasoning, ASTRAL extracts and synthesises system representations from disparate data sources. By integrating LLM reasoning with architectural modelling, our approach supports adaptive threat identification and quantitative risk estimation for cyber-physical systems. We evaluated the approach through an ablation study across multiple CPS case studies and an expert evaluation involving 14 experienced cybersecurity practitioners. Practitioner feedback suggests that ASTRAL is useful and reliable for supporting architecture-centric security assessment. Overall, the results indicate that the approach can support more informed cyber risk management decisions.
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