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This report is superseded by a follow-on paper presented at the 2015 MTD workshop.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,…