Presentation 2022-03-11
Enhancing Resilience of an MQTT Broker Using Immunity-Based Attack Detection
Takeshi Okamoto,
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Abstract(in English) Smartification of public services is being promoted, but smart public services are at risk of cyberattacks. One of cyberattacks is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on unknown vulnerabilities. Recovery from denial-of-service requires responses that may incur several hours or days of downtime. It is essential to enhance the resilience of smart public services by minimizing downtime. This study assumes a smart disaster prevention service using MQTT brokers, and aims to enhance resilience against cyberattacks by applying immunity-based attack detection proposed by the authors to the MQTT brokers. Our previous work has shown that immunity-based attack detection could detect attacks on some vulnerabilities of the Mosquitto broker with high detection accuracy, but it could not correctly detect attacks on use-after-free vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting them, and demonstrate the effectiveness of the method through performance evaluation.
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Keyword(in English) Attack detection / MQTT / Mosquitto / Use-After-Free / Machine learning
Paper # NS2021-158
Date of Issue 2022-03-03 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee NS / IN
Conference Date 2022/3/10(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) General
Chair Akihiro Nakao(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.)
Vice Chair Tetsuya Oishi(NTT) / Kunio Hato(Internet Multifeed)
Secretary Tetsuya Oishi(NTT) / Kunio Hato(Chuo Univ.)
Assistant Kotaro Mihara(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Information Networks
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Enhancing Resilience of an MQTT Broker Using Immunity-Based Attack Detection
Sub Title (in English) Detection and Prevention of DoS Attacks against Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities
Keyword(1) Attack detection
Keyword(2) MQTT
Keyword(3) Mosquitto
Keyword(4) Use-After-Free
Keyword(5) Machine learning
1st Author's Name Takeshi Okamoto
1st Author's Affiliation Kanagawa Institute of Technology(KAIT)
Date 2022-03-11
Paper # NS2021-158
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) NS-433
Page pp.pp.212-217(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2022-03-03 (NS)