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Ortal Lavi

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arXiv2025

SCyTAG: Scalable Cyber-Twin for Threat-Assessment Based on Attack Graphs

Understanding the risks associated with an enterprise environment is the first step toward improving its security. Organizations employ various methods to assess and prioritize the risks identified in cyber threat intelligence (CTI) reports that may be relevant to their operations. Some methodologies rely heavily on manual analysis (which requires expertise and cannot be applied frequently), while others automate the assessment, using attack graphs (AGs) or threat emulators. Such emulators can be employed in conjunction with cyber twins to avoid disruptions in live production environments when evaluating the highlighted threats. Unfortunately, the use of cyber twins in organizational networks is limited due to their inability to scale. In this paper, we propose SCyTAG, a multi-step framework that generates the minimal viable cyber twin required to assess the impact of a given attack scenario. Given the organizational computer network specifications and an attack scenario extracted from a CTI report, SCyTAG generates an AG. Then, based on the AG, it automatically constructs a cyber twin comprising the network components necessary to emulate the attack scenario and assess the relevance and risks of the attack to the organization. We evaluate SCyTAG on both a real and fictitious organizational network. The results show that compared to the full topology, SCyTAG reduces the number of network components needed for emulation by up to 85% and halves the amount of required resources while preserving the fidelity of the emulated attack. SCyTAG serves as a cost-effective, scalable, and highly adaptable threat assessment solution, improving organizational cyber defense by bridging the gap between abstract CTI and practical scenario-driven testing.

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arXiv2024

GeNet: A Multimodal LLM-Based Co-Pilot for Network Topology and Configuration

Communication network engineering in enterprise environments is traditionally a complex, time-consuming, and error-prone manual process. Most research on network engineering automation has concentrated on configuration synthesis, often overlooking changes in the physical network topology. This paper introduces GeNet, a multimodal co-pilot for enterprise network engineers. GeNet is a novel framework that leverages a large language model (LLM) to streamline network design workflows. It uses visual and textual modalities to interpret and update network topologies and device configurations based on user intents. GeNet was evaluated on enterprise network scenarios adapted from Cisco certification exercises. Our results demonstrate GeNet's ability to interpret network topology images accurately, potentially reducing network engineers' efforts and accelerating network design processes in enterprise environments. Furthermore, we show the importance of precise topology understanding when handling intents that require modifications to the network's topology.

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arXiv2023

AI-Empowered Hybrid MIMO Beamforming

Hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an attractive technology for realizing extreme massive MIMO systems envisioned for future wireless communications in a scalable and power-efficient manner. However, the fact that hybrid MIMO systems implement part of their beamforming in analog and part in digital makes the optimization of their beampattern notably more challenging compared with conventional fully digital MIMO. Consequently, recent years have witnessed a growing interest in using data-aided artificial intelligence (AI) tools for hybrid beamforming design. This article reviews candidate strategies to leverage data to improve real-time hybrid beamforming design. We discuss the architectural constraints and characterize the core challenges associated with hybrid beamforming optimization. We then present how these challenges are treated via conventional optimization, and identify different AI-aided design approaches. These can be roughly divided into purely data-driven deep learning models and different forms of deep unfolding techniques for combining AI with classical optimization.We provide a systematic comparative study between existing approaches including both numerical evaluations and qualitative measures. We conclude by presenting future research opportunities associated with the incorporation of AI in hybrid MIMO systems.

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arXiv2023

Learn to Rapidly and Robustly Optimize Hybrid Precoding

Hybrid precoding plays a key role in realizing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters with controllable cost. MIMO precoders are required to frequently adapt based on the variations in the channel conditions. In hybrid MIMO, here precoding is comprised of digital and analog beamforming, such an adaptation involves lengthy optimization and depends on accurate channel state information (CSI). This affects the spectral efficiency when the channel varies rapidly and when operating with noisy CSI. In this work we employ deep learning techniques to learn how to rapidly and robustly optimize hybrid precoders, while being fully interpretable. We leverage data to learn iteration-dependent hyperparameter settings of projected gradient sum-rate optimization with a predefined number of iterations. The algorithm maps channel realizations into hybrid precoding settings while preserving the interpretable flow of the optimizer and improving its convergence speed. To cope with noisy CSI, we learn to optimize the minimal achievable sum-rate among all tolerable errors, proposing a robust hybrid precoding based on the projected conceptual mirror prox minimax optimizer. Numerical results demonstrate that our approach allows using over ten times less iterations compared to that required by conventional optimization with shared hyperparameters, while achieving similar and even improved sum-rate performance.

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