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Moving target defense has emerged as a critical paradigm of protecting a vulnerable system against persistent and stealthy attacks. To protect a system, a defender proactively changes the system configurations to limit the exposure of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Henger Li , Wen Shen , Zizhan Zheng

As an effective approach to thwarting advanced attacks, moving target defense (MTD) has been applied to various domains. Previous works on MTD, however, mainly focus on deciding the sequence of system configurations to be used and have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Henger Li , Zizhan Zheng

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a key technique in various security applications as it takes away the attacker's ability to perform reconnaissance for exploiting a system's vulnerabilities. However, most of the existing research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Vignesh Viswanathan , Megha Bose , Praveen Paruchuri

The field of cybersecurity has mostly been a cat-and-mouse game with the discovery of new attacks leading the way. To take away an attacker's advantage of reconnaissance, researchers have proposed proactive defense methods such as Moving…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sailik Sengupta , Subbarao Kambhampati

Network defenses based on traditional tools, techniques, and procedures fail to account for the attacker's inherent advantage present due to the static nature of network services and configurations. To take away this asymmetric advantage,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Sailik Sengupta , Ankur Chowdhary , Abdulhakim Sabur , Adel Alshamrani , Dijiang Huang , Subbarao Kambhampati

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is commonly formulated as a repeated security game to mitigate persistent threats. Although the strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) characterizes the defender's optimal strategy in the leader-follower framework,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhaoyang Cheng , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong , Ming Cao , Mikael Skoglund

Electric power grid components, such as high voltage transformers (HVTs), generating stations, substations, etc. are expensive to maintain and, in the event of failure, replace. Thus, regularly monitoring the behavior of such components is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Sailik Sengupta , Kaustav Basu , Arunabha Sen , Subbarao Kambhampati

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a proactive and dynamic framework to counteract evolving cyber threats. Traditional MTD approaches often rely on assumptions about the attackers knowledge and behavior. However, real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Megha Bose , Praveen Paruchuri , Akshat Kumar

Large scale cloud networks consist of distributed networking and computing elements that process critical information and thus security is a key requirement for any environment. Unfortunately, assessing the security state of such networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ankur Chowdhary , Sailik Sengupta , Adel Alshamrani , Dijiang Huang , Abdulhakim Sabur

The processing and storage of critical data in large-scale cloud networks necessitate the need for scalable security solutions. It has been shown that deploying all possible security measures incurs a cost on performance by using up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ankur Chowdhary , Sailik Sengupta , Dijiang Huang , Subbarao Kambhampati

In this work, we model Moving Target Defence (MTD) as a partially observable stochastic game between an attacker and a defender. The attacker tries to compromise the system through probing actions, while the defender minimizes the risk by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mandar Datar , Yann Dujardin

Security is one of the most relevant concerns in cloud computing. With the evolution of cyber-security threats, developing innovative techniques to thwart attacks is of utmost importance. One recent method to improve cloud computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Matheus Torquato , Marco Vieira

Present attack methods can make state-of-the-art classification systems based on deep neural networks misclassify every adversarially modified test example. The design of general defense strategies against a wide range of such attacks still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Sailik Sengupta , Tathagata Chakraborti , Subbarao Kambhampati

Several moving target defenses (MTDs) to counter adversarial ML attacks have been proposed in recent years. MTDs claim to increase the difficulty for the attacker in conducting attacks by regularly changing certain elements of the defense,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Aqib Rashid , Jose Such

Moving target defense (MTD) techniques that enable a system to randomize its configuration to thwart prospective attacks are an effective security solution for tomorrow's wireless networks. However, there is a lack of analytical techniques…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 AbdelRahman Eldosouky , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato

Modern mission-critical systems (MCS) are increasingly softwarized and interconnected. As a result, their complexity increased, and so their vulnerability against cyber-attacks. The current adoption of virtualization and service-oriented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Doğanalp Ergenç , Florian Schneider , Peter Kling , Mathias Fischer

With the boom of edge intelligence, its vulnerability to adversarial attacks becomes an urgent problem. The so-called adversarial example can fool a deep learning model on the edge node to misclassify. Due to the property of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yaguan Qian , Qiqi Shao , Jiamin Wang , Xiang Lin , Yankai Guo , Zhaoquan Gu , Bin Wang , Chunming Wu

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is a proactive security mechanism which changes the attack surface aiming to confuse attackers. Cloud computing leverages MTD techniques to enhance cloud security posture against cyber threats. While many MTD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hooman Alavizadeh , Samin Aref , Dong Seong Kim , Julian Jang-Jaccard

Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a newcomer into the asymmetric field of attack and defense, and shuffling-based MTD has been regarded as one of the most effective ways to mitigate DDoS attacks. However, previous work does not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Yuyang Zhou , Guang Cheng , Shanqing Jiang , Ying Hu , Yuyu Zhao , Zihan Chen

Moving target defense (MTD) is a proactive defense approach that aims to thwart attacks by continuously changing the attack surface of a system (e.g., changing host or network configurations), thereby increasing the adversary's uncertainty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Taha Eghtesad , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka
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