Expected losses, insurability, and benefits from reducing vulnerability to attacks.
Description:
A model of malicious attacks against an infrastructure system is developed that uses a network representation of the system structure together with a Hidden Markov Model of an attack at a node of that system and a Markov Decision Process model of attacker strategy across the system as a whole. We use information systems as an illustration, but the analytic structure developed can also apply to attacks against physical facilities or other systems that provide services to customers. This structur…
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Date:
March 1, 2004
Creator:
Nozick, Linda Karen (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY); Carlson, Rolf Erik & Turnquist, Mark Alan (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
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