Model for cyber attacker behavioral analysis

Today the world is under virtually constant attack, targeted by increasingly sophisticated and well funded attackers. The increasing efficacy of cyber threats continues to highlight the inadequacies of traditional defense mechanism such as firewalls and Intrusion Detection System. The security analyst however focuses on finding the technical deficiency but do not consider the adversaries motivations and their diversity in attacking mechanism. The attackers are not analogous; they differ in their motivations, strategies, devices used and potential. In order to analyze and design security system, it is therefore necessary to consider characteristics that ascertain attack strategy, attacker behavior and threats generated by attackers. The attacker behavioral analysis has proved to be an impulsive aid for threat analysis. A generic model is proposed to model the cyber attacker´s behavior more accurately by considering the principles behind the attacker´s behavior and thereby generating the profile of an attacker.