English
Related papers

Related papers: Adaptive MTD Security using Markov Game Modeling

200 papers

In recent studies, moving target defense (MTD) has been applied to detect false data injection (FDI) attacks using distributed flexible AC transmission system (D-FACTS) devices. However, the inherent conflict between the security goals of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Jiazhou Wang , Jue Tian , Yang Liu , Xiaohong Guan , Dong Yang , Ting Liu

This paper studies the deployment of joint moving target defense (MTD) and deception against multi-stage cyberattacks. Given the system equipped with MTD that randomizes between different configurations, we investigate how to allocate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lening Li , Haoxiang Ma , Shuo Han , Jie Fu

Since 2009, Moving Target Defense (MTD) has become a new paradigm of defensive mechanism that frequently changes the state of the target system to confuse the attacker. This frequent change is costly and leads to a trade-off between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Gabriel Ballot , Vadim Malvone , Jean Leneutre , Etienne Borde

With the increase of connectivity in power grid, a cascading failure may be triggered by the failure of a transmission line, which can lead to substantial economic losses and serious negative social impacts. Therefore, it is very important…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Liang Yu , Zhen Gao , Shuqi Qin , Meng Zhang , Chao Shen , Xiaohong Guan , Dong Yue

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

The cloud model allows many enterprises able to outsource computing resources at an affordable price without having to commit the expense upfront. Although the cloud providers are responsible for the security of the cloud, there are still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Hootan Alavizadeh , Hooman Alavizadeh , Julian Jang-Jaccard

Cloud infrastructures are being increasingly utilized in critical infrastructures such as banking/finance, transportation and utility management. Sophistication and resources used in recent security breaches including those on critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Satvik Jain , Arun Balaji Buduru , Anshuman Chhabra

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

In this paper, we study the problem of assessing the effectiveness of a proactive defense-by-detection policy with a network-based moving target defense. We model the network system using a probabilistic attack graph--a graphical security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Zhentian Qian , Jie Fu , Quanyan Zhu

Moving target defenses (MTD) are proactive security techniques that enhance network security by confusing the attacker and limiting their attack window. MTDs have been shown to have significant benefits when evaluated against traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Tina Moghaddam , Guowei Yang , Chandra Thapa , Seyit Camtepe , Dan Dongseong Kim

The threats posed by evolving cyberattacks have led to increased research related to software systems that can self-protect. One topic in this domain is Moving Target Defense (MTD), which changes software characteristics in the protected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Ryan Liu , Ladan Tahvildari

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

Cyber warfare has become a critical dimension of modern conflict, driven by society's increasing dependence on interconnected digital and physical infrastructure. Effective cyber defense often requires decision-making at different echelons,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

A model of strategy formulation is used to study how an adaptive attacker learns to overcome a moving target cyber defense. The attacker-defender interaction is modeled as a game in which a defender deploys a temporal platform migration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-19 M. L. Winterrose , K. M. Carter , N. Wagner , W. W. Streilein

The proliferation of UAVs has enabled a wide range of mission-critical applications and is becoming a cornerstone of low-altitude networks, supporting smart cities, emergency response, and more. However, the open wireless environment,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yuyang Zhou , Guang Cheng , Kang Du , Zihan Chen , Tian Qin , Yuyu Zhao

It is challenging for a security analyst to detect or defend against cyber-attacks. Moreover, traditional defense deployment methods require the security analyst to manually enforce the defenses in the presence of uncertainties about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Xiaofan Zhou , Simon Yusuf Enoch , Dong Seong Kim

We consider a cloud based multiserver system consisting of a set of replica application servers behind a set of proxy (indirection) servers which interact directly with clients over the Internet. We study a proactive moving-target defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Neda Nasiriani , Yuquan Shan , George Kesidis , Takis Konstantopoulos , Daniel Fleck , Angelos Stavrou

The power grid is a critical infrastructure essential for public safety and welfare. As its reliance on digital technologies grows, so do its vulnerabilities to sophisticated cyber threats, which could severely disrupt operations. Effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Omer Sen , Bozhidar Ivanov , Christian Kloos , Christoph Zol_ , Philipp Lutat , Martin Henze , Andreas Ulbig

Malware affecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices is rapidly growing due to the relevance of this paradigm in real-world scenarios. Specialized literature has also detected a trend towards multi-purpose malware able to execute different…

Moving target defense (MTD) in power grids is an emerging defense technique that has gained prominence in the recent past. It aims to solve the long-standing problem of securing the power grid against stealthy attacks. The key idea behind…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Yexiang Chen , Charalambos Konstantinou , Daisuke Mashima , Anurag K. Srivastava