British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Maximilien Servajean

Yipeng Cheng

A method of anomaly detection for network traffic communicated by devices via a computer network, the method including clustering a set of time series, each time series including a plurality of time windows of data corresponding to network communication characteristics for a device; training an autoencoder for each cluster based on time series in the cluster; generating a set of reconstruction errors for each autoencoder based on testing the autoencoder with data from time windows of at least a subset of the time series; generating a probabilistic model of reconstruction errors for each autoencoder; and generating an aggregation of the probabilistic models for, in use, detecting reconstruction errors for a time series of data corresponding to network communication characteristics for a device as anomalous.

Anomaly detection in computer networks

A method of anomaly detection for network traffic communicated by devices via a computer network, the method including receiving a set of training time series each including a plurality of time windows of data corresponding to network communication characteristics for a first device; training an autoencoder for a first cluster based on a time series in the first cluster, wherein a state of the autoencoder is periodically recorded after a predetermined fixed number of training examples to define a set of trained autoencoders for the first cluster; receiving a new time series including a plurality of time windows of data corresponding to network communication characteristics for the first device; for each time window of the new time series, generating a vector of reconstruction errors for the first device for each autoencoder based on testing the autoencoder with data from the time window; and evaluating a derivative of each vector; training a machine learning model based on the derivatives so as to define a filter for identifying subsequent time series for a second device being absent anomalous communication.

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Maximilien Servajean