Optimizing active cyber defense

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8252 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 206-225

  Lu, Wenlian ^a,b   Xu, Shouhuai ^c   Yi, Xinlei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c One UTSA Circle   (United States)

Author keywords

Active cyber defense; Cyber security model; Optimization, epidemic model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; COMPUTER WORMS; DECISION THEORY; GAME THEORY; MALWARE;

BASED FILTERING; CYBER DEFENSE; CYBER SECURITY; EPIDEMIC MODELING; INFINITE TIME HORIZON; MALICIOUS WORM; NASH EQUILIBRIA; OPTIMAL CONTROLS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84893411018     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02786-9_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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