A Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic Cyber-Security
Systems and Control
2014-09-12 v2 Cryptography and Security
Abstract
An analytical approach for a dynamic cyber-security problem that captures progressive attacks to a computer network is presented. We formulate the dynamic security problem from the defender's point of view as a supervisory control problem with imperfect information, modeling the computer network's operation by a discrete event system. We consider a min-max performance criterion and use dynamic programming to determine, within a restricted set of policies, an optimal policy for the defender. We study and interpret the behavior of this optimal policy as we vary certain parameters of the supervisory control problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.0838,
title = {A Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic Cyber-Security},
author = {Mohammad Rasouli and Erik Miehling and Demosthenis Teneketzis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0838},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
19 pages, 4 figures, GameSec 2014 (Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)