Managed Execution Environment as a Moving-Target Defense Infrastructure
Partha Pratim Pal, Richard E. Schantz, Aaron Paulos, Brett Benyo · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2014
The A3 adaptive execution management environment contributes to moving-target defense (MTD) strategies by enabling sophisticated dynamic defensive maneuvers. A3 facilitates synergistic combination of MTDs with one another as well as with other aspects of a composite defense, aiming to improve an application's resiliency over time. It can expand MTDs' scope and increase their effectiveness by subjecting additional system aspects to dynamic motion and adding moving-target dynamism to the overall defense, with little increase in cost and complexity.