Active cyber defense with denial and deception: A cyber-wargame experiment

Deception in defense of computer systems from cyber-attack

While computer systems can be quite susceptible to deception by attackers, deception by defenders has increasingly been investigated in recent years. Military history has classic examples of defensive deceptions, but not all tactics and strategies have analogies in cyberspace. Honeypots are the most important example today; they are decoy computer systems designed to encourage attacks to collec...

Scientometrics of Deception, Counter-deception, and Deception Detection in Cyber-space

The concepts of deception, counter-deception, and deception detection in the cyber-space domain have been the subject of little systematic analysis. Our objective was to conduct scientometric analyses of these concepts in the cyber-space domain. We observed the following: Although various deceptive tactics are addressed in the cyber-security literature, it appears they are characterized more fr...

Integrating Cyber-D&D into Adversary Modeling for Active Cyber Defense

Using Bayesian Attack Detection Models to Drive Cyber Deception

We present a method to devise, execute, and assess a cyber deception. The aim is to cause an adversary to believe they are under a cyber attack when in fact they are not. Cyber network defense relies on human and computational systems that can reason over multiple individual evidentiary items to detect the presence of meta events, i.e., cyber attacks. Many of these systems aggregate and reason ...

Proactive Defense Against Physical Denial of Service Attacks Using Poisson Signaling Games

While the Internet of things (IoT) promises to improve areas such as energy efficiency, health care, and transportation, it is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In particular, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks overload the bandwidth of a server. But many IoT devices form part of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Therefore, they can be used to launch “physical” denial-of-service attacks ...