Assessing Anonymized System Logs Usefulness for Behavioral Analysis in RNN Models

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Abstract

System logs are a common source of monitoring data for analyzing computing systems' behavior. Due to the complexity of modern computing systems and the large size of collected monitoring data, automated analysis mechanisms are required. Numerous machine learning and deep learning methods are proposed to address this challenge. However, due to the existence of sensitive data in system logs their analysis and storage raise serious privacy concerns. Anonymization methods could be used to clean the monitoring data before analysis. However, anonymized system logs, in general, do not provide adequate usefulness for the majority of behavioral analysis. Content-aware anonymization mechanisms such as PaRS preserve the correlation of system logs even after anonymization. This work evaluates the usefulness of anonymized system logs taken from the Taurus HPC cluster anonymized using PaRS, for behavioral analysis via recurrent neural network models.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationD2R2 2022 : Data-driven Resilience Research 2022
EditorsNatanael Arndt, Sabine Gründer-Fahrer, Julia Holze, Michael Martin, Sebastian Tramp
PublisherRTWH Aachen
Number of pages12
Publication statusPublished - 2 Dec 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume3376
ISSN1613-0073

Workshop

Title2022 International Workshop on Data-Driven Resilience Research
Abbreviated titleD2R2 2022
Duration6 July 2022
LocationNeues Rathaus & online
CityLeipzig
CountryGermany

External IDs

ArXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01101v1

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Keywords

  • Data usefulness, System log analysis, Time series analysis