Empirical game-theoretic methods for adaptive cyber-defense

MP Wellman, TH Nguyen, and M Wright in S Jajodia et al. (Eds.): Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, LNCS 11830, pages 112–128, 2019. Abstract Game-theoretic applications in cyber-security are often restricted…

Deception in Finitely Repeated Security Games

TH Nguyen, Y Wang, A Sinha, and MP Wellman 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan/Feb 2019. Abstract Allocating resources to defend targets from attack is often complicated by uncertainty about the attacker’s capabilities,…

Multi-stage attack graph security games: Heuristic strategies, with empirical game-theoretic analysis

TH Nguyen, M Wright, MP Wellman, and S Singh Security and Communication Networks, Article ID 2864873, 28 pages, 2018. Extended version of a paper presented at the Fourth ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense, Oct 2017. Abstract We study…

A Stackelberg game model for botnet data exfilitration

TH Nguyen, MP Wellman, and S Singh 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pages 151–170, Oct 2017. Abstract Cyber-criminals can distribute malware to control computers on a networked system and leverage these…