Facade: High-Precision Insider Threat Detection Using Deep Contextual Anomaly Detection

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Main Authors: Kantchelian, Alex, Neo, Casper, Stevens, Ryan, Kim, Hyungwon, Fu, Zhaohao, Momeni, Sadegh, Huber, Birkett, Bursztein, Elie, Pavlidis, Yanis, Buthpitiya, Senaka, Cochran, Martin, Poletto, Massimiliano
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author Kantchelian, Alex
Neo, Casper
Stevens, Ryan
Kim, Hyungwon
Fu, Zhaohao
Momeni, Sadegh
Huber, Birkett
Bursztein, Elie
Pavlidis, Yanis
Buthpitiya, Senaka
Cochran, Martin
Poletto, Massimiliano
author_facet Kantchelian, Alex
Neo, Casper
Stevens, Ryan
Kim, Hyungwon
Fu, Zhaohao
Momeni, Sadegh
Huber, Birkett
Bursztein, Elie
Pavlidis, Yanis
Buthpitiya, Senaka
Cochran, Martin
Poletto, Massimiliano
contents We present Facade (Fast and Accurate Contextual Anomaly DEtection): a high-precision deep-learning-based anomaly detection system deployed at Google (a large technology company) as the last line of defense against insider threats since 2018. Facade is an innovative unsupervised action-context system that detects suspicious actions by considering the context surrounding each action, including relevant facts about the user and other entities involved. It is built around a new multi-modal model that is trained on corporate document access, SQL query, and HTTP/RPC request logs. To overcome the scarcity of incident data, Facade harnesses a novel contrastive learning strategy that relies solely on benign data. Its use of history and implicit social network featurization efficiently handles the frequent out-of-distribution events that occur in a rapidly changing corporate environment, and sustains Facade's high precision performance for a full year after training. Beyond the core model, Facade contributes an innovative clustering approach based on user and action embeddings to improve detection robustness and achieve high precision, multi-scale detection. Functionally what sets Facade apart from existing anomaly detection systems is its high precision. It detects insider attackers with an extremely low false positive rate, lower than 0.01%. For single rogue actions, such as the illegitimate access to a sensitive document, the false positive rate is as low as 0.0003%. To the best of our knowledge, Facade is the only published insider risk anomaly detection system that helps secure such a large corporate environment.
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spellingShingle Facade: High-Precision Insider Threat Detection Using Deep Contextual Anomaly Detection
Kantchelian, Alex
Neo, Casper
Stevens, Ryan
Kim, Hyungwon
Fu, Zhaohao
Momeni, Sadegh
Huber, Birkett
Bursztein, Elie
Pavlidis, Yanis
Buthpitiya, Senaka
Cochran, Martin
Poletto, Massimiliano
Cryptography and Security
We present Facade (Fast and Accurate Contextual Anomaly DEtection): a high-precision deep-learning-based anomaly detection system deployed at Google (a large technology company) as the last line of defense against insider threats since 2018. Facade is an innovative unsupervised action-context system that detects suspicious actions by considering the context surrounding each action, including relevant facts about the user and other entities involved. It is built around a new multi-modal model that is trained on corporate document access, SQL query, and HTTP/RPC request logs. To overcome the scarcity of incident data, Facade harnesses a novel contrastive learning strategy that relies solely on benign data. Its use of history and implicit social network featurization efficiently handles the frequent out-of-distribution events that occur in a rapidly changing corporate environment, and sustains Facade's high precision performance for a full year after training. Beyond the core model, Facade contributes an innovative clustering approach based on user and action embeddings to improve detection robustness and achieve high precision, multi-scale detection. Functionally what sets Facade apart from existing anomaly detection systems is its high precision. It detects insider attackers with an extremely low false positive rate, lower than 0.01%. For single rogue actions, such as the illegitimate access to a sensitive document, the false positive rate is as low as 0.0003%. To the best of our knowledge, Facade is the only published insider risk anomaly detection system that helps secure such a large corporate environment.
title Facade: High-Precision Insider Threat Detection Using Deep Contextual Anomaly Detection
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06700