How Effective Are the Prevailing Attack-Defense Models for Cybersecurity Anyway?

Attack-defense models play an important role in the design of cybersecurity systems. Here, the authors review some traditional and prevailing attack-defense models along with their weaknesses. Then, they survey some recently proposed paradigm shifts to these models based on which more effective security strategies can be designed. Further, they provide some suggestions on how to adopt the new models, and present challenges that need to be addressed in this field.