A General Framework for Adaptive and Online Detection of Web Attacks

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Abstract

Detection of web attacks is an important issue in current defense-in-depth security framework. In this paper, we pro- pose a novel general framework for adaptive and online de- tection of web attacks. The general framework can be based on any online clustering methods. A detection model based on the framework is able to learn online and deal with “con- cept drift” in web audit data streams. Str-DBSCAN that we extended DBSCAN [1] to streaming data as well as StrAP [3] are both used to validate the framework. The detec- tion model based on the framework automatically labels the web audit data and adapts to normal behavior changes while identifies attacks through dynamical clustering of the streaming data. A very large size of real HTTP Log data col- lected in our institute is used to validate the framework and the model. The preliminary testing results demonstrated its effectiveness.