A Moving Target Defense Approach to Mitigate DDoS Attacks against Proxy-Based Architectures

S Venkatesan, M Albanese, K Amin, S Jajodia, and M Wright IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, Oct 2016. Abstract Distributed Denial of Service attacks against high-profile targets have become more frequent in recent…

Moving Target Defense against DDoS Attacks: An Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis

M Wright, S Venkatesan, M Albanese, and MP Wellman Third ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense, Oct 2016. Abstract Distributed denial-of-service attacks are a rampant problem facing web applications, for which many defense techniques have…

Gradient Methods for Stackelberg Security Games

K Amin, S Singh, and MP Wellman Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, June 2016. Abstract Stackelberg games are two-stage games in which the first player (called the leader) commits to a strategy, after which the other…

Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Moving Target Defense

A Prakash and MP Wellman Second ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense, Oct 2015. Abstract The effectiveness of a moving target defense depends on how it is deployed through specific system operations over time, and how attackers may respond…

Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis of an Adaptive Cyber-Defense Scenario (Preliminary Report)

MP Wellman and A Prakash Fifth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, Nov 2014. This report is superseded by a follow-on paper presented at the 2015 MTD workshop. Abstract We investigate an adaptive cyber-defense scenario,…