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This paper introduces a novel complexity-informed approach to cybersecurity management, addressing the challenges found within complex cyber defences. We adapt and extend the complexity theory to cybersecurity and develop a quantitative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Lampis Alevizos

Adversarial reconnaissance is a crucial step in sophisticated cyber-attacks as it enables threat actors to find the weakest points of otherwise well-defended systems. To thwart reconnaissance, defenders can employ cyber deception…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shanto Roy , Nazia Sharmin , Mohammad Sujan Miah , Jaime C Acosta , Christopher Kiekintveld , Aron Laszka

In the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the utilization of cyber deception has gained prominence as a proactive defense strategy against sophisticated attacks. This paper presents a comprehensive survey that investigates the crucial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Md Abu Sayed , Moqsadur Rahman , Mohammad Ariful Islam Khan , Deepak Tosh

Recognition of an adversary's objective is a core problem in physical security and cyber defense. Prior work on target recognition focuses on developing optimal inference strategies given the adversary's operating environment. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Anakin Dey , Sam Ruggerio , Manav Vora , Melkior Ornik

In wireless communication adversarial scenarios, signals are easily intercepted by non-cooperative parties, exposing the transmission of confidential information. This paper proposes a true-and-false (T/F) frequency multiplexing based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Zhisheng Yin , Nan Cheng , Mingjie Wang , Changle Li , Wei Xiang

Cyber deception is one of the key approaches used to mislead attackers by hiding or providing inaccurate system information. There are two main factors limiting the real-world application of existing cyber deception approaches. The first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Shen Sheng , Wanlei Zhou

Defensive deception is a promising approach for cyber defense. Via defensive deception, the defender can anticipate attacker actions; it can mislead or lure attacker, or hide real resources. Although defensive deception is increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mu Zhu , Ahmed H. Anwar , Zelin Wan , Jin-Hee Cho , Charles Kamhoua , Munindar P. Singh

Deception is a technique to mislead human or computer systems by manipulating beliefs and information. For the applications of cyber deception, non-cooperative games become a natural choice of models to capture the adversarial interactions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Tao Zhang , Linan Huang , Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu

APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) with the characteristics of persistence, stealth, and diversity is one of the greatest threats against cyber-infrastructure. As a countermeasure, existing studies leverage provenance graphs to capture the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mingqi Lv , HongZhe Gao , Xuebo Qiu , Tieming Chen , Tiantian Zhu , Jinyin Chen , Shouling Ji

Progressively intricate cyber infiltration mechanisms have made conventional means of defense, such as firewalls and malware detectors, incompetent. These sophisticated infiltration mechanisms can study the defender's behavior, identify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Murat Cubuktepe , Nils Jansen , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Ufuk Topcu

Deception is a crucial tool in the cyberdefence repertoire, enabling defenders to leverage their informational advantage to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks. One way deception can be employed is through obscuring, or masking,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junlin Wu , Charles Kamhoua , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Cognitive vulnerabilities shape human decision-making and arise primarily from two sources: (1) cognitive capabilities, which include disparities in knowledge, education, expertise, or access to information, and (2) cognitive biases, such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

With the ever growing networking capabilities and services offered to users, attack surfaces have been increasing exponentially, additionally, the intricacy of network architectures has increased the complexity of cyber-defenses, to this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Xavier Bellekens , Gayan Jayasekara , Hanan Hindy , Miroslav Bures , David Brosset , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

In the field of network security, with the ongoing arms race between attackers, seeking new vulnerabilities to bypass defense mechanisms and defenders reinforcing their prevention, detection and response strategies, the novel concept of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Daniel Reti , Karina Elzer , Daniel Fraunholz , Daniel Schneider , Hans-Dieter Schotten

Deception technology has proven to be a sound approach against threats to information systems. Aside from well-established honeypots, decoy elements, also known as honeytokens, are an excellent method to address various types of threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Daniel Reti , Daniel Fraunholz , Janis Zemitis , Daniel Schneider , Hans Dieter Schotten

One of the widely used cyber deception techniques is decoying, where defenders create fictitious machines (i.e., honeypots) to lure attackers. Honeypots are deployed to entice attackers, but their effectiveness depends on their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Palvi Aggarwal , Yinuo Du , Kuldeep Singh , Cleotilde Gonzalez

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are stealthy attacks which make use of social engineering and deception to give adversaries insider access to networked systems. Against APTs, active defense technologies aim to create and exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Jeffrey Pawlick , Thi Thu Hang Nguyen , Edward Colbert , Quanyan Zhu

The reported work points at developing a practical approach for power transmission planners to secure power networks from potential deliberate attacks. We study the interaction between a system planner (defender) and a rational attacker who…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Hamzeh Davarikia , Masoud Barati , Mustafa Al-Assad , Yupo Chan

This paper presents an intelligent and adaptive agent that employs deception to recognize a cyber adversary's intent. Unlike previous approaches to cyber deception, which mainly focus on delaying or confusing the attackers, we focus on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Aditya Shinde , Prashant Doshi , Omid Setayeshfar