PeerShield: determining control and resilience criticality of collaborative cyber assets in networks

Hasan Cam

doi:10.1117/12.919394

7 May 2012 PeerShield: determining control and resilience criticality of collaborative cyber assets in networks

Hasan Cam

Proceedings Volume 8408, Cyber Sensing 2012; 840808 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919394
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

As attackers get more coordinated and advanced in cyber attacks, cyber assets are required to have much more resilience, control effectiveness, and collaboration in networks. Such a requirement makes it essential to take a comprehensive and objective approach for measuring the individual and relative performances of cyber security assets in network nodes. To this end, this paper presents four techniques as to how the relative importance of cyber assets can be measured more comprehensively and objectively by considering together the main variables of risk assessment (e.g., threats, vulnerabilities), multiple attributes (e.g., resilience, control, and influence), network connectivity and controllability among collaborative cyber assets in networks. In the first technique, a Bayesian network is used to include the random variables for control, recovery, and resilience attributes of nodes, in addition to the random variables of threats, vulnerabilities, and risk. The second technique shows how graph matching and coloring can be utilized to form collaborative pairs of nodes to shield together against threats and vulnerabilities. The third technique ranks the security assets of nodes by incorporating multiple weights and thresholds of attributes into a decision-making algorithm. In the fourth technique, the hierarchically well-separated tree is enhanced to first identify critical nodes of a network with respect to their attributes and network connectivity, and then selecting some nodes as driver nodes for network controllability.

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Hasan Cam "PeerShield: determining control and resilience criticality of collaborative cyber assets in networks", Proc. SPIE 8408, Cyber Sensing 2012, 840808 (7 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919394

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