NLLog: Lightweight, Explainable SOC Anomaly Detection Via Log-To-Language Rewriting

System-generated logs underpin security monitoring, yet their rigid template-based format hinders both automated analysis and human comprehension. We present NLLog Natural-Language Log, a lightweight pipeline that deterministically rewrites parsed templates into WHO-WHAT-SEVERITY sentences, pools...

Explainable Machine Learning for Phishing Detection on Heterogeneous Datasets with MCP-Enabled Deployment

With the growth in digital transformation and Internet usage, the Social Engineering techniques such as Phishing have become a major concern for the users and the organizations. Phishing attacks involve deceptive techniques to trick users into revealing confidential information that causes...

SDNGuardStack: An Explainable Ensemble Learning Framework for High-Accuracy Intrusion Detection in Software-Defined Networks

Software-Defined Networking SDN is another technology that has been developing in the last few years as a relevant technique to improve network programmability and administration. Nonetheless, its centralized design presents a major security issue, which requires effective intrusion detection...

Exploring Robust Intrusion Detection: A Benchmark Study of Feature Transferability in IoT Botnet Attack Detection

Cross-domain intrusion detection remains a critical challenge due to significant variability in network traffic characteristics and feature distributions across environments. This study evaluates the transferability of three widely used flow-based feature sets Argus, Zeek and CICFlowMeter across...

Detecting Cybersecurity Threats by Integrating Explainable AI with SHAP Interpretability and Strategic Data Sampling

The critical need for transparent and trustworthy machine learning in cybersecurity operations drives the development of this integrated Explainable AI XAI framework. Our methodology addresses three fundamental challenges in deploying AI for threat detection: handling massive datasets through...

Empirical Analysis of Adversarial Robustness and Explainability Drift in Cybersecurity Classifiers

Machine learning ML models are increasingly deployed in cybersecurity applications such as phishing detection and network intrusion prevention. However, these models remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations small, deliberate input modifications that can degrade detection accuracy and...

PrivFly: A Privacy-Preserving Self-Supervised Framework for Rare Attack Detection in IoFT

The Internet of Flying Things IoFT plays a vital role in modern applications such as aerial surveillance and smart mobility. However, it remains highly vulnerable to cyberattacks that threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive data. Developing effective intrusion...

An Optimized Decision Tree-Based Framework for Explainable IoT Anomaly Detection

The increase in the number of Internet of Things IoT devices has tremendously increased the attack surface of cyber threats thus making a strong intrusion detection system IDS with a clear explanation of the process essential towards resource-constrained environments. Nevertheless, current IoT ID...

Zero-Trust Agentic Federated Learning for Secure IIoT Defense Systems

Recent attacks on critical infrastructure, including the 2021 Oldsmar water treatment breach and 2023 Danish energy sector compromises, highlight urgent security gaps in Industrial IoT IIoT deployments. While Federated Learning FL enables privacy-preserving collaborative intrusion detection,...

From One Attack Domain to Another: Contrastive Transfer Learning with Siamese Networks for APT Detection

Advanced Persistent Threats APT pose a major cybersecurity challenge due to their stealth, persistence, and adaptability. Traditional machine learning detectors struggle with class imbalance, high dimensional features, and scarce real world traces. They often lack transferability-performing well ...

Interpretable Ransomware Detection Using Hybrid Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of BERT, RoBERTa, and DeBERTa through LIME and SHAP

Ransomware continues to evolve in complexity, making early and explainable detection a critical requirement for modern cybersecurity systems. This study presents a comparative analysis of three Transformer-based Large Language Models LLMs BERT, RoBERTa, and DeBERTa for ransomware detection using...

Enhancing Adversarial Robustness of IoT Intrusion Detection Via SHAP-Based Attribution Fingerprinting

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things IoT devices has transformed numerous industries by enabling seamless connectivity and data-driven automation. However, this expansion has also exposed IoT networks to increasingly sophisticated security threats, including adversarial attacks targeting...

A Comparative Analysis of Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Approaches with Explainable AI for Multi-Class Intrusion Detection in Drone Networks

The growing integration of drones into civilian, commercial, and defense sectors introduces significant cybersecurity concerns, particularly with the increased risk of network-based intrusions targeting drone communication protocols. Detecting and classifying these intrusions is inherently...

Evaluating Large Language Models for Phishing Detection, Self-Consistency, Faithfulness, and Explainability

Phishing attacks remain one of the most prevalent and persistent cybersecurity threat with attackers continuously evolving and intensifying tactics to evade the general detection system. Despite significant advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, faithfully reproducing the...

Interpretable Anomaly Detection in Encrypted Traffic Using SHAP with Machine Learning Models

The widespread adoption of encrypted communication protocols such as HTTPS and TLS has enhanced data privacy but also rendered traditional anomaly detection techniques less effective, as they often rely on inspecting unencrypted payloads. This study aims to develop an interpretable machine...