2016/03/28 by Ren Zheng, Wenlian Lu, Zheng, Ren +3
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.08314
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The Internet is a man-made complex system under constant attacks (e.g., Advanced Persistent Threats and malwares). It is therefore important to understand the phenomena that can be induced by the interaction between cyber attacks and cyber defenses. In this paper, we explore the rich phenomena that can be exhibited when the defender employs active defense to combat cyber attacks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that shows that \em active cyber defense dynamics (or more generally, \em cybersecurity dynamics) can exhibit the bifurcation and chaos phenomena. This has profound implications for cyber security measurement and prediction: (i) it is infeasible (or even impossible) to accurately measure and predict cyber security under certain circumstances; (ii) the defender must manipulate the dynamics to avoid such \em unmanageable situations in real-life defense operations.