Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2011.159
