Game theory for adaptive defensive cyber deception
Kimberly J. Ferguson-Walter, Sunny Fugate, Justin Mauger, Maxine Major · 2019
As infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick describes in his book The Art of Deception, "the human factor is truly security's weakest link" [18]. Deception has been widely successful when used by hackers for social engineering and by military strategists in kinetic warfare [26]. Deception affects the human's beliefs, decisions, and behaviors. Similarly, as cyber defenders, deception is a powerful tool that should be employed to protect our systems against humans who wish to penetrate, attack, and harm them.