Augmented Dual-Shuffle-based Moving Target Defense to Ensure CIA-triad in Federated Learning

Publisher:
IEEE
Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021 - Proceedings, 2022, 00
Issue Date:
2022-01-01
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In today's 'Internet of Everything (IoE)' era, the collaboration from massive participants significantly boosts the performance and efficiency of model training. This trend also un-avoidably stirs up considerable concerns about multi-dimensional security problems. Under the circumstances, federated learning (FL) is enthusiastically adopted, as it protects privacy to a certain extent by only processing personal data locally. Nevertheless, FL's characteristics of concealment also pave the way for sev-eral emerging attacks during the training process, i.e., model inversion, poisoning, and backdoor. Currently, although partially mitigating attack effects, existing countermeasures against those threats are studied separately and orthogonal. This separation makes those defense methods mutually exclusive and restrictive in real-world application scenarios, far from satisfying. In this paper, we extensively model different attack paradigms into three types based on CIA-triad, the well-known information security primitive, and propose a novel dual-shuffle method to thwart aforementioned threats jointly. Concretely speaking, our primary model shuffling mechanism provides the confidentiality guarantee based on the information-theoretic notion of identifiability; then, an augmented client shuffling mechanism purges the user group of adversaries proactively without any compromise of anonymous constraints. By conducting a series of experiments on bench-mark datasets, we demonstrate that our method could achieve significant security and convergence performance against three state-of-the-art attacks.
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