2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06)
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Stochastic Security and Dependability Evaluation
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA
September 29-October 01
ISBN: 0-7695-2539-3
The complex networked computer systems of today are often vulnerable to a large number of failures, accidental as well as intentional. To be able to assess to what degree one can rely on such a system, new methods for quantitative evaluation is needed. This paper presents a stochastic model for integrated security and dependability evaluation, which models malicious attacker behavior as transitions between system states. To predict the probabilities of attack actions a game theoretic approach is applied. We demonstrate the method by computing security and dependability measures in two different case studies.
Citation:
Karin Sallhammar, Bjarne E. Helvik, Sven J. Knapskog, "A Game-Theoretic Approach to Stochastic Security and Dependability Evaluation," dasc, pp.61-68, 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06), 2006