arXiv:2604.20932cs.CRcs.AI2026-04

为RAG系统设计自适应防御框架,动态选择安全策略以平衡防护与性能。

Adaptive Defense Orchestration for RAG: A Sentinel-Strategist Architecture against Multi-Vector Attacks

  • 根据查询上下文动态启用所需防御,避免全时开启导致的性能下降。
  • 在成员推断攻击下完全消除泄露,召回率恢复至未防御基线水平。
  • 适用于医疗、法律等高敏感度场景,适合关注安全与效率平衡的研究者。

检索增强生成(RAG)系统在医疗、法律等敏感领域广泛应用,依赖私有领域知识,但面临成员推断、数据投毒和内容泄露等安全风险。若始终开启所有防御,会显著降低检索性能:实验显示,全时防御使上下文召回率下降超过40%,成为主要失效模式。为此,我们提出「哨兵-战略家」(Sentinel-Strategist)架构,通过哨兵检测异常检索行为,由战略家根据查询上下文选择性部署必要防御。在三个基准数据集和五种编排模型上评估,该方法可完全消除基于MBA的成员推断泄露,同时显著恢复检索性能,召回率接近未防御基线。在数据投毒攻击下,最强变体将攻击成功率降至接近零,且召回率恢复至未防御基线的75%以上,但鲁棒性仍受模型选择影响。结果表明,查询感知的自适应防御能有效缓解RAG系统中的安全-效用权衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains such as healthcare and law, where they rely on private, domain-specific knowledge. This capability introduces significant security risks, including membership inference, data poisoning, and unintended content leakage. A straightforward mitigation is to enable all relevant defenses simultaneously, but doing so incurs a substantial utility cost. In our experiments, an always-on defense stack reduces contextual recall by more than 40%, indicating that retrieval degradation is the primary failure mode. To mitigate this trade-off in RAG systems, we propose the Sentinel-Strategist architecture, a context-aware framework for risk analysis and defense selection. A Sentinel detects anomalous retrieval behavior, after which a Strategist selectively deploys only the defenses warranted by the query context. Evaluated across three benchmark datasets and five orchestration models, ADO is shown to eliminate MBA-style membership inference leakage while substantially recovering retrieval utility relative to a fully static defense stack, approaching undefended baseline levels. Under data poisoning, the strongest ADO variants reduce attack success to near zero while restoring contextual recall to more than 75% of the undefended baseline, although robustness remains sensitive to model choice. Overall, these findings show that adaptive, query-aware defense can substantially reduce the security-utility trade-off in RAG systems.

RAG安全自适应防御数据投毒成员推断

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