Ant-Based Cyber Security

Author

Haack, Jereme N. ; Fink, Glenn A. ; Maiden, Wendy M. ; McKinnon, A. David ; Templeton, Steven J. ; Fulp, Errin W.

Author_Institution

Pacific Northwest Nat. Lab., Richland, WA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

11-13 April 2011

Firstpage

918

Lastpage

926

Abstract

We describe a swarming-agent-based, mixed initiative approach to infrastructure defense where teams of humans and software agents defend cooperating organizations in tandem by sharing insights and solutions without violating proprietary boundaries. The system places human administrators at the appropriate level: where they provide system guidance while lower-level agents carry out tasks humans are unable to perform quickly enough to mitigatetoday´s security threats. Cooperative Infrastructure Defense, or CID, uses our ant-based approach to enable dialogue between humans and agents to foster a collaborative problem solving environment, to increase human situational awareness and to influence using visualization and shared control. We discuss theoretical implementation characteristics along with results from recent proof-of-concept implementations.

Keywords

cooperative systems; groupware; problem solving; security of data; software agents; CID; ant-based cyber security; collaborative problem solving environment; cooperating organizations; cooperative infrastructure defense; human administrators; human situational awareness; lower-level agents; mixed initiative approach; proof-of-concept implementations; proprietary boundary; security threats; shared control; software agents; swarming-agent-based approach; system guidance; theoretical implementation characteristics; visualization; Humans; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Organizations; Prototypes; Security; Software agents; agents; digital ants; digital pheromone; security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2011 Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-427-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4367-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2011.159

Filename

5945358