用图神经网络分析云日志,自动识别异常事件,减少误报。
Towards Improved Anomaly Detection for Cloud Cybersecurity via Graph Neural Networks

- 基于图神经网络的自监督模型,动态识别云日志中的可疑行为。
- 在五家组织中测试,告警量从数千降至每小时约1条。
- 适合安全团队部署,降低人工分析负担,适用于企业级云环境。
随着组织对云基础设施依赖加深,检测云环境中的安全威胁变得至关重要。所有云计算事件的日志记录为事后调查提供了依据。传统基于规则或静态异常检测的方法因缺乏灵活性,常导致高误报率。本文通过一个工业案例研究,提出一种基于图神经网络的自监督学习方法,应用于AWS CloudTrail日志,以识别需分析师审查的可疑事件。该模型为每个事件生成异常评分,并能动态适应组织变化,无需定期重新训练。在五个组织的实验中,该模型产生的告警数量远低于领域专家制定的规则基线,告警频率从数千次降至平均每小时约1次。需要注意的是,当前评估仅覆盖被标记事件,无法估算漏报率;因此结果更应被视为实际部署中的经验洞察,而非完全验证的检测系统。文中讨论了这些局限性,并提出未来将该方法扩展至其他云环境的需求。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Detecting security threats in an organization's cloud computing environment has become necessary due to the increased reliance on cloud infrastructure. Logging of all cloud computing events enables investigation into any incidents after they are detected. Automated detection of threats using the logs based on heuristics or anomaly detection could result in a high false positive rate due to its relatively static nature. In this article, we present an industrial case study of a self-supervised learning method using graph neural networks applied to AWS CloudTrail logs to surface suspicious events for analyst review. The model produces an anomaly score for each event and dynamically adapts to changes in the organization without requiring periodic retraining. Based on our experiments across five organizations, the proposed model produced substantially fewer alerts than a domain expert rule-based baseline in almost all cases, reducing alert volumes to approximately 1 per hour from thousands generated by traditional methods. We note that this evaluation covers only flagged events, and false negatives cannot be estimated from the current data; findings should therefore be interpreted as a practical deployment study offering insights into real-world constraints rather than a fully validated detection system. We discuss these limitations and the requirements for extending the approach to other cloud environments as future work.
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