Formalizing Agents' Beliefs for Cyber-Security Defense Strategy Planning

Karsten Martiny; Alexander Motzek; Ralf Möller

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5_2

Formalizing Agents' Beliefs for Cyber-Security Defense Strategy Planning

Karsten Martiny, Alexander Motzek, Ralf Möller

Institute of Information Systems

Abstract

Critical information infrastructures have been exposed to an increasing number of cyber attacks in recent years. Current protection approaches consider the reaction to a threat from an operational perspective, but leave out human aspects of an attacker. The problem is, no matter how good a defense planning from an operational perspective is, it must be considered that any action taken might influence an attacker's belief in reaching a goal. For solving this problem this paper introduces a formal model of belief states for defender and intruder agents in a cyber-security setting. We do not only consider an attacker as a deterministic threat, but consider her as a human being and provide a formal method for reasoning about her beliefs given our reactions to her actions, providing more powerful means to assess the merits of countermeasures when planning cyber-security defense strategies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Joint Conference
Editors	Álvaro Herrero, Bruno Baruque, Javier Sedano, Héctor Quintián, Emilio Corchado
Number of pages	11
Volume	369
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Publication date	27.05.2015
Pages	15-25
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-19712-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-19713-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5_2
Publication status	Published - 27.05.2015
Event	8th International Joint Conferences on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems, CISIS 2015 and 6th European Transnational Education, ICEUTE 2015 - Burgos, Spain Duration: 15.06.2015 → 17.06.2015 Conference number: 154119

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Martiny, K., Motzek, A., & Möller, R. (2015). Formalizing Agents' Beliefs for Cyber-Security Defense Strategy Planning. In Á. Herrero, B. Baruque, J. Sedano, H. Quintián, & E. Corchado (Eds.), International Joint Conference (Vol. 369, pp. 15-25). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 369). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5_2

Martiny, Karsten ; Motzek, Alexander ; Möller, Ralf. / Formalizing Agents' Beliefs for Cyber-Security Defense Strategy Planning. International Joint Conference. editor / Álvaro Herrero ; Bruno Baruque ; Javier Sedano ; Héctor Quintián ; Emilio Corchado. Vol. 369 Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015. pp. 15-25 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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Martiny, K, Motzek, A & Möller, R 2015, Formalizing Agents' Beliefs for Cyber-Security Defense Strategy Planning. in Á Herrero, B Baruque, J Sedano, H Quintián & E Corchado (eds), International Joint Conference. vol. 369, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 369, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 15-25, 8th International Joint Conferences on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems, CISIS 2015 and 6th European Transnational Education, ICEUTE 2015
, Burgos, Spain, 15.06.15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5_2

Formalizing Agents' Beliefs for Cyber-Security Defense Strategy Planning. / Martiny, Karsten; Motzek, Alexander; Möller, Ralf.
International Joint Conference. ed. / Álvaro Herrero; Bruno Baruque; Javier Sedano; Héctor Quintián; Emilio Corchado. Vol. 369 Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. p. 15-25 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 369).

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