• DocumentCode
    1735134
  • Title

    A Simulation of Various Variable Hacker Populations

  • Author

    Pendegraft, Norman ; Rounds, Mark

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Bus. & Econ., Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    504
  • Lastpage
    510
  • Abstract
    The interaction between an information system, its users, and a variable population of attackers is simulated. The attacker population grows according to one or more growth processes reflecting different attacker motivations. Passive defense proves efficacious against only some attacker types.
  • Keywords
    computer crime; digital simulation; attacker population; computer security; hacker population simulation; information system; variable hacker populations; Computational modeling; Computer crime; Computer hacking; Computer security; Educational institutions; Information security; Law; Legal factors; Network servers; Telecommunication traffic; computer security; simulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5334-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3823-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSE.2009.139
  • Filename
    5283060