A model for automated cybersecurity threat remediation and sharing

Settanni F.;Regano L.;Basile C.;Lioy A.

2023-01-01

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to the automatic remediation of threats reported by Cyber Threat Intelligence. Remediation strategies, named Recipes, are expressed in a close-to-natural language for easy validation. Thanks to the developed models, they are interpreted, contextualized, and then translated into CACAO Security playbooks, a standard format ready for automatic enforcement, without human intervention. The presented approach also allows sharing of remediation procedures on threat-sharing platforms (e.g. MISP) which improves the overall security posture. The effectiveness of the approach has been tested in the context of two EC-funded projects.