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Risk-Averse Bi-Level Stochastic Network Interdiction Model for Cyber-Security Risk Management

This research presents a bi-level stochastic network interdiction model on an attack graph to enable a risk-averse resource constrained cyber network defender to optimally deploy security countermeasures to protect against attackers having an uncertain budget. This risk-averse conditional-value-at-risk model minimizes a weighted sum of the expected maximum loss over all scenarios and the expected maximum loss from the most damaging attack scenarios. We develop an exact algorithm to solve our model as well as several acceleration techniques to improve the computational efficiency. Computational experiments demonstrate that the application of all the acceleration techniques reduces the average computation time of the basic algorithm by 71% for 100-node graphs. Using metrics called mean-risk value of stochastic solution and value of risk-aversion, numerical results suggest that our stochastic risk-averse model significantly outperforms deterministic and risk-neutral models when 1) the distribution of attacker budget is heavy-right-tailed and 2) the defender is highly risk-averse.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-4830
Date10 August 2018
CreatorsBhuiyan, Tanveer Hossain
PublisherScholars Junction
Source SetsMississippi State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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