Proactive Security for Safety and Sustainability of Mission Critical Systems

Lakhdhar, Yosra; Rekhis, Slim; Boudriga, Noureddine

doi:10.1109/tsusc.2018.2810092

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“…Wu et al [53] proposed a security situational awareness mechanism based on the analysis of big data in the smart grid. Lakhdhar et al [54] proposed a formal model for the supervision of cyber system security, the proactive assessment of attack damage, and the execution of security countermeasures at the appropriate time to maintain critical resources.…”

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Efficient Strategy Selection for Moving Target Defense Under Multiple Attacks

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In a real network environment, multiple types of attacks can occur. The more important the service or network, the more attacks it may suffer simultaneously. Moving target defense (MTD) technology is a revolutionary game-changing cyberspace technology that has found various applications in recent years. However, the existing strategies are targeted at defending against specific types of attacks and do not meet the security requirements for multiple attacks. Therefore, we propose a joint defense strategy based on the MTD that can select one or multiple mutant elements to defend against different types of attacks. In addition, we use the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to quantify the factors affecting the attack and defense costs. After comprehensively analyzing the effects of the different MTD technologies against different attacks, we propose an efficient strategy selection algorithm based on joint defense. Finally, we conduct experiments to evaluate the selection of a joint defense strategy under multiple attacks. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed joint defense strategy selection approach. INDEX TERMS Moving target defense, efficient defensive strategy selection, multiple attack, joint defense, genetic algorithm.

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Efficient Strategy Selection for Moving Target Defense Under Multiple Attacks

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“…The rationale for raising the issue is the growing interest in the three concepts. In the literature either the links between them, or shifts from security and/or safety to sustainability are explored; the discussions concern various areas, for instance, in software engineering [6], critical systems development [7], urban development [8], agriculture [9]. In this aspect, the popularity of security and safety education as well as education for sustainability will be examined through text mining of publications from the Web of Science database.…”

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Can Security and Safety Education Support Sustainability? Lessons Learned from Poland

Gawlik-Kobylińska¹

2021

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The aim of the article is to prove that sustainable development goals can be supported by security and safety education, where security refers to the state of being free from danger or threats and safety applies to creating protection from risks or dangers. This kind of education, which is obligatory in Polish schools, encompasses interdisciplinary knowledge and universal values focusing on improvement of human existence through minimisation of threats. Through the Word Frequency Query, the most intense descriptors of security and safety education were distinguished and fitted within the framework of sustainable development goals. The obtained data were supported with literature analysis identified with relevant keywords in the Web of Science database. It was proved that security and safety education reflects the idea of sustainable development in a variety of aspects. Since common foundations were identified, it could be inferred that teaching security and safety is a great platform for promotion of sustainable development goals. Moreover, in countries where security and safety education is taught as a separate school subject, more cross-disciplinary sustainability issues should be implemented in the curricula and taught with the use of novel strategies and tools.

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“…The work in "Proactive Security For Safety And Sustainability of Mission Critical Systems" [7] proposes a model for deploying a network of observer agents and a central defense agent to monitor the system, generate attack data and analyse them to develop a hypothetical graph of potential attacks to the network. This graph is beneficial to evaluate the impact of a cyber attack on the system and proactively defend against cyber attacks to improve sustainability.…”

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