LOCALINTEL: Generating Organizational Threat Intelligence from Global and Local Cyber Knowledge

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10036v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:00:01 GMT
• Title: LOCALINTEL: Generating Organizational Threat Intelligence from Global and Local Cyber Knowledge
• Authors: Shaswata Mitra, Subash Neupane, Trisha Chakraborty, Sudip Mittal, Aritran Piplai, Manas Gaur, Shahram Rahimi
• Abstract summary: Security Operations Center analysts gather threat reports from openly accessible global threat databases and customize them manually to suit a particular organization's needs. Analysts undertake a labor intensive task utilizing these global and local knowledge databases to manually create organization's unique threat response and mitigation strategies. We present LOCALINTEL, a novel automated knowledge contextualization system that retrieves threat reports from the global threat repositories and uses its local knowledge database to contextualize them for a specific organization.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Security Operations Center (SoC) analysts gather threat reports from openly accessible global threat databases and customize them manually to suit a particular organization's needs. These analysts also depend on internal repositories, which act as private local knowledge database for an organization. Credible cyber intelligence, critical operational details, and relevant organizational information are all stored in these local knowledge databases. Analysts undertake a labor intensive task utilizing these global and local knowledge databases to manually create organization's unique threat response and mitigation strategies. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown the capability to efficiently process large diverse knowledge sources. We leverage this ability to process global and local knowledge databases to automate the generation of organization-specific threat intelligence. In this work, we present LOCALINTEL, a novel automated knowledge contextualization system that, upon prompting, retrieves threat reports from the global threat repositories and uses its local knowledge database to contextualize them for a specific organization. LOCALINTEL comprises of three key phases: global threat intelligence retrieval, local knowledge retrieval, and contextualized completion generation. The former retrieves intelligence from global threat repositories, while the second retrieves pertinent knowledge from the local knowledge database. Finally, the fusion of these knowledge sources is orchestrated through a generator to produce a contextualized completion.

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