Towards Self-Adaptive Cyber Deception for Defense
Jason Landsborough, Luke Carpenter, Braulio Coronado, Sunny Fugate, Kimberly J. Ferguson-Walter, Dirk Van Bruggen · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2021
Cyber attackers currently benefit from an asymmetric advantage, leveraging both features and flaws of networking protocols and software to discover and exploit vulnerabilities with impunity.Although significant work has been done to automate various cyber defenses, novel research remains in combining autonomic reasoning and defensive cyber deception.While many difficulties remain in creating a robust system, we have actively explored the utility of such systems for achieving effective cyber defense.Our current approach applies autonomic reasoning to the task of interfering with an attacker's movement through the Cyber Kill Chain R [1] by employing deceptive countermeasures.In this paper, we explore the integration of autonomic computing with insights from game theory and cognitive and behavioral psychology to create a system for adaptive cyber defense using deception.