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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

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is an emerging game-changing defense strategy in cybersecurity with the goal of strengthening defenders and conversely puzzling adversaries in a network environment. The successful deployment of an MTD system can…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Jianjun Zheng , Akbar Siami Namin

Reactive defense mechanisms, such as intrusion detection systems, have made significant efforts to secure a system or network for the last several decades. However, the nature of reactive security mechanisms has limitations because…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jin-Hee Cho , Dilli P. Sharma , Hooman Alavizadeh , Seunghyun Yoon , Noam Ben-Asher , Terrence J. Moore , Dong Seong Kim , Hyuk Lim , Frederica F. Nelson

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

We study moving-target defense (MTD) that actively perturbs transmission line reactances to thwart stealthy false data injection (FDI) attacks against state estimation in a power grid. Prior work on this topic has proposed MTD based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Subhash Lakshminarayana , David K. Y. Yau

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 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

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) 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

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

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

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

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) can enhance the resilience of cyber systems against attacks. Although there have been many MTD techniques, there is no systematic understanding and {\em quantitative} characterization of the power of MTD. In this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Yujuan Han , Wenlian Lu , Shouhuai Xu

Recently, moving target defence (MTD) has been proposed to thwart false data injection (FDI) attacks in power system state estimation by proactively triggering the distributed flexible AC transmission system (D-FACTS) devices. One of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng

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 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

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

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

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
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