Title :
Multi-agent Modelling and Simulation of Cyber-Attacks and Cyber-Defense for Homeland Security
Author_Institution :
St. Petersburg Inst. for Inf. & Autom., St. Petersburg
Abstract :
The paper considers the approach to investigation of distributed cooperative cyber-defense mechanisms against network attacks. The approach is based on the agent-based simulation of cyber-attacks and cyber-protection mechanisms which combines discrete-event simulation, multi-agent approach and packet-level simulation of network protocols. The various methods of counteraction against cyber-attacks are explored by representing attack and defense components as agent teams using the developed software simulation environment. The teams of defense agents are able to cooperate as the defense system components of different organizations and Internet service providers (ISPs). The paper represents the common framework and implementation peculiarities of the simulation environment as well as the experiments aimed on the investigation of distributed network attacks and defense mechanisms.
Keywords :
Internet; discrete event simulation; multi-agent systems; national security; protocols; security of data; Internet service providers; agent-based simulation; cyber-attacks; cyber-protection mechanisms; discrete-event simulation; distributed cooperative cyber-defense mechanisms; homeland security; multi-agent modelling; network protocols; packet-level simulation; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Computer security; Information security; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Ontologies; Protection; Terrorism; agents; cyber-attacks; cyber-defense; simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications, 2007. IDAACS 2007. 4th IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Dortmund
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1347-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1348-5
DOI :
10.1109/IDAACS.2007.4488494