Towards a Multi-Agent Simulation of Cyber-attackers and Cyber-defenders Battles
Abstract
As cyber-attacks show to be more and more complex and coordinated, cyber-defenders strategy through multi-agent approaches could be key to tackle against cyber-attacks as close as entry points in a networked system. This paper presents a Markovian modeling and implementation through a simulator of fighting cyber-attacker agents and cyber-defender agents deployed on host network nodes. It aims to provide an experimental framework to implement realistically based coordinated cyber-attack scenarios while assessing cyber-defenders dynamic organizations. We abstracted network nodes by sets of properties including agents' ones. Actions applied by agents model how the network reacts depending in a given state and what properties are to change. Collective choice of the actions brings the whole environment closer or farther from respective cyber-attackers and cyber-defenders goals. Using the simulator, we implemented a realistically inspired scenario with several behavior implementation approaches for cyber-defenders and cyber-attackers.
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@article{arxiv.2506.04849,
title = {Towards a Multi-Agent Simulation of Cyber-attackers and Cyber-defenders Battles},
author = {Julien Soulé and Jean-Paul Jamont and Michel Occello and Paul Théron and Louis-Marie Traonouez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04849},
year = {2025}
}