Abstract

Insider threat represents a major cybersecurity challenge to companies and government agencies. The challenges in insider threat detection include unbalanced data, limited ground truth, and possible user behaviour changes. This research presents an unsupervised machine learning (ML) based anomaly detection approach for insider threat detection. We employ two ML methods with different working principles, specifically auto-encoder and isolation forest, and explore various representations of data with temporal information. Evaluation results show that the approach allows learning from unlabelled data under adversarial conditions for insider threat detection with a high detection and a low false positive rate. For example, 60% of malicious insiders are detected under 0.1% investigation budget. Furthermore, we explore the ability of the proposed approach to generalize for detecting unseen anomalous behaviours in different datasets, i.e. robustness. Comparisons with other work in the literature confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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