Applications of Causal Modeling in Cybersecurity: An Exploratory Approach
Suchitra Abel, Yenchih Tang, Jake Singh, Ethan Paek · Advances in Science Technology and Engineering Systems Journal · 2020
Our research investigates the use of causal modeling and its application towards mapping out cybersecurity threat patterns.We test the strength of various methods of data breaches over its impact on the breach's discovery time as well as the number of records lost.Utilizing a Causal Modeling framework, we simulate the isolation of confounding variables while testing the robustness of varying estimators.The motivation is to shed a unique insight provided by the usage of Causal Modeling in cybersecurity.