How does

Eureka

Use AI?

Automatically maps detected vulnerabilities and false positive filtering.

Project Overview

An AI platform that automates vulnerability management by mapping scanner findings to OWASP ASVS standards and filtering false positives to prioritize real threats.

Layman's Explanation

Imagine a cybersecurity expert who instantly reads every security alert from all your different tools, throws out the junk, organizes the real threats by importance, and tells you exactly why each one matters.

Details

Eureka DevSecOps, a product spin-off from cybersecurity consultancy Forward Security, was created to productize deep security expertise. The platform addresses a core industry challenge: security teams are overwhelmed by a high volume of alerts from various scanning tools, many of which are false positives. The system integrates with tools like Veracode and Semgrep, normalizing their outputs into a unified dashboard.

The platform's intelligence is driven by two key AI components. First, a sophisticated Natural Language Processing (NLP) model automatically maps detected vulnerabilities to the comprehensive OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS). This provides a consistent framework for risk assessment, a complex multi-class classification task. Second, an advanced false positive filtering pipeline uses a machine learning model to analyze vulnerabilities and distinguish real threats from noise. This model considers vulnerability descriptions, code context, and scanner confidence scores, achieving high accuracy in identifying which alerts can be safely ignored. For example, analysis shows that a model can achieve over 96% accuracy (ROC AUC) in this task, with scanner confidence score being the single most important predictive feature.

To ensure analyst trust, the platform incorporates Explainable AI (XAI), providing natural language justifications for its classifications. The entire system is built on a scalable, multi-tenant Kubernetes architecture designed to meet enterprise banking-level security standards, including capabilities for air-gapped deployments. This allowed Eureka to successfully launch at Web Summit and onboard production customers.

Analogy

It's like having a professional email filter for your security alerts. Instead of drowning in a spam-filled inbox, you get a clean, prioritized list of only the messages that actually require your attention, complete with notes on what to do next.

Machine Learning Techniques Used

  • Natural Language Processing; Used to analyze vulnerability descriptions from various scanners for automated mapping to OWASP ASVS categories.
  • Generative AI; Leveraged to produce natural language explanations for why a vulnerability was flagged as a true or false positive, enhancing analyst trust.
  • Ensemble Learning; A multi-stage pipeline combines deterministic algorithms and machine learning models to improve the accuracy of false positive detection.
  • Transfer Learning; State-of-the-art language models are likely fine-tuned on security-specific data to improve classification and analysis performance. (Assumption: based on "state-of-the-art language models" mention).
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    Novelty Justification

    The project is a sophisticated application of current state-of-the-art techniques, combining advanced NLP for automated OWASP ASVS mapping, a high-accuracy false positive filtering pipeline, and Explainable AI within a secure, multi-tenant, enterprise-grade architecture. While not foundational research, its successful integration and deployment for paying enterprise customers is a high-complexity achievement.

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