After a successful first installment, co-located with the 30th ACM CCS last year in Copenhagen, ARTMAN is back in 2024. With a somehow broader scope, the rebranded workshop on Recent Advances in Resilient and Trustworthy MAchine learniNg is now joining forces with the 40th edition of ACSAC, held in Hawai in December 2024. The Call for Papers is out and available on ARTMAN’s website. The submission deadline has been extended to September 15th, 23:50 AoE. Accepted papers are likely to be published to an international journal, as co-chairs are actively considering a suitable venue.

Our PI, Gregory, was invited to open the CNRS’ GDR SI Summer School held in Bourges (France), Cyber in Berry 2.0, by a talk on his experiences in ML-based network intrusion detection. The keynote, entitled Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection: Are We There Yet?, covers topics at the intersection of the Machine Learning and Intrusion Detection domains, summing up both state of the art and Gregory’s own research, including latest endeavours in NIDS evaluation, as carried out in GRIFIN. Despite a postponed talk late in the afternoon, Gregory received positive feedback and offered the attendees a nice aperitive, discussing issues and perspectives in the ML-based NIDS research scene. Hoping to have inspired students to follow in his trail…

Today, after a quick trip to St. Louis, our PI, Gregory, will be delivering a presentation on DDoS Mitigation while Preserving QoS: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach. This presentation prepared by Shurok for her accepted submission at SecSoft ‘24 will be presented on her behalf, as she could not attend herself. It takes place as NetSoft ‘24 is coming to an end with this last day workshop on Cyber-Security in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures (program).

Shurok will be giving a talk on her upcoming presentation at SecSoft ‘24. She will be discussing the contents of her accepted research paper during next CoaP seminar on June 17th from 10am in room 3.A213. This will be the opportunity to get a first feedback from other research colleagues around our campus.

Tomorrow marks the start of another edition of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC). There, one output of the GRIFIN project will be showcased as collaboration with Japanese scholars from The University of Tokyo and Toyo University. The joint work conducted by Satoshi Okada, a Ph.D candidate who stayed for 6 months with us in 2023, introduces a methodology and related experiments with leveraging explainable AI metrics such as Integrated Gradients to drive the process of looking for adversarial examples in the problem space that are able to circumvent a network intrusion detector. In this work, Satoshi demonstrates successful yet realistic bypasses of an NIDS trained the CIC-IDS2017 dataset for a couple of attack classes, with little effort. He then validates that the generated adversarial network packets work in practice by attacking the detector in a virtual testbed. Please attend his talk during Session 1B on Machine Learning and Security in Room A from 11:15 to 12:35 on the first day (June 5th).

We are delighted to announce that our Ph.D candidate, Shurok, has got her first paper accepted at the 6th International Workshop on Cyber-Security in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures (SecSoft), a workshop co-located with IEEE NetSoft. The paper deals with one of her proposed Double DQN-based approach to automate the selection of appropriate countermeasures in the face of adversaries assuming varying positions in the network. The workshop will be held on June 28th, in St Louis (US).

Solayman, our PhD candidate, presents his ongoing progress on the Data-driven Evaluation of Intrusion Detectors in front of the PIRAT'); team, a cybersecurity research team, at IRISA Laboratory in Rennes. He will discussing the methodological framework and its early implementation on April 25th, at 2:00pm. The work will soon be published, along with its code for other researchers to reuse and carry out reproducible and comparable evaluation of their ML-based intrusion detection systems.

Hedi has joined the GRIFIN project as an intern. He will be closely working with Solayman, our Ph.D student on implementing state-of-the-art ML-based intrusion detection systems to demonstrate our evaluation framework. Hailing from ESPRIT, a Tunisian engineering school, he has been an exchange student at 3IL, a French engineering school, before joining Telecom SudParis. Experienced in developing ML models in Python, Hedi will be a strong asset to the development of the evaluation framework and its extension.

Shurok, our Ph.D candidate involved in automating the mitigation of cyber-attacks, is coming to Rennes to present her progress during the poster session of WISG'24 on March 14th, 2024. She will also be participating to the “Speed-posters” competition, an engaging rump format where she will attempt to present her thesis work in less than 3 minutes. Come meet and chat with Shurok and our PI, Gregory, in front of our poster during the evening.

Krish is a talented B.Tech student from India who is spending a 6-month internship with us at Télécom SudParis to work on building a platform for an IoT/5G use case to generate data, deploy and evaluate GRIFIN innovations in a more realistic context. Originally hailing from Vellore Institute of Technology, he has already spent a few internships working on related issues and we are happy to offer the opportunity to apply his skills and mind to network traffic analysis at different layers, monitoring and both legitimate and attack traffic generation. In that endeavour, Krish is going to actively collaborate with engineers at Montimage in order to integrate some of their technological solutions in wireless network monitoring and 5G traffic generation.