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Professor Nick Heard

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Chair in Statistics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1490n.heard Website

 
 
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Location

 

543Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Price-Williams:2019:10.1111/rssc.12325,
author = {Price-Williams, M and Heard, N and Rubin-Delanchy, P},
doi = {10.1111/rssc.12325},
journal = {Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C},
pages = {641--655},
title = {Detecting weak dependence in computer network traffic patterns by using higher criticism},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12325},
volume = {68},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - To perform robust statistical anomaly detection in cybersecurity, we must build realistic models of the traffic patterns within a computer network. It is therefore important to understand the dependences between the large number of routinely interacting communication pathways within such a network. Pairs of interacting nodes in any directed communication network can be modelled as point processes where events in a process indicate information being sent between two nodes. For two processes A and B denoting the interactions between two distinct pairs of computers, called edges, we wish to assess whether events in A trigger events then to occur in B. A test is introduced to detect such dependence when only a subset of the events in A exhibit a triggering effect on process B; this test will enable us to detect even weakly correlated edges within a computer network graph. Since computer network events occur as a high frequency data stream, we consider the asymptotics of this problem as the number of events goes to ∞, while the proportion exhibiting dependence goes to 0, and examine the performance of tests that are provably consistent in this framework. An example of how this method can be used to detect genuine causal dependences is provided by using real world event data from the enterprise computer network of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
AU  - Price-Williams,M
AU  - Heard,N
AU  - Rubin-Delanchy,P
DO  - 10.1111/rssc.12325
EP  - 655
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 0035-9254
SP  - 641
TI  - Detecting weak dependence in computer network traffic patterns by using higher criticism
T2  - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12325
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/65590
VL  - 68
ER  -
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