Command and Control Requirements for Moving-Target Defense

Carvalho, Marco; Bradshaw, Jeffrey M.; Bunch, Larry; Eskridge, Thomas C.; Feltovich, Paul J.; Hoffman, Robert R.; Kidwell, Dan

doi:10.1109/mis.2012.45

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“…Consequently, MTD can be deployed to more dedicated or hybrid environment with different service requirements or operational constraints. At the same time, literature [34] proposed MTD based on manmachine collaboration, which is to cope with the deviation of data analysis in strategy formulation. By combing the result of expert experience with that of machine learning, it ensures the accuracy of strategy generation and the effectiveness of mechanism implementation.…”

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Moving Target Defense Techniques: A Survey

Cheng

Zhang

Jian-cheng

et al. 2018

Security and Communication Networks

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As an active defense technique to change asymmetry in cyberattack-defense confrontation, moving target defense research has become one of the hot spots. In order to gain better understanding of moving target defense, background knowledge and inspiration are expounded at first. Based on it, the concept of moving target defense is analyzed. Secondly, literature analysis method is adopted to explain the design principles and system architecture of moving target defense. In addition, some relevant key techniques are introduced from the aspects of strategy generation, shuffling implementation, and performance evaluation. After that, the applications of moving target defense in different network architectures are illustrated. Finally, existing problems and future trend in this field are elaborated so as to provide a basis for further study.

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Section: Design Principle and System Architecture Of Mtdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving Target Defense Techniques: A Survey

Cheng

Zhang

Jian-cheng

et al. 2018

Security and Communication Networks

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“…This active ability of an MTD system is independent of the state of the environment it resides on. To be more effective and practical, an MTD system should also be equipped with the reactive ability, which responds to an anomalous event observed or perceived (Carvalho et al, 2012). Currently, some existing mechanisms have been designed with active and reactive abilities simultaneously, such as ChameleonSoft (Azab et al, 2011) and moving attack surface (MAS) (Huang and Ghosh, 2011).…”

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Moving target defense: state of the art and characteristics

Cai

Wang

et al. 2016

Frontiers Inf Technol Electronic Eng

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Moving target defense (MTD) has emerged as one of the game-changing themes to alter the asymmetric situation between attacks and defenses in cyber-security. Numerous related works involving several facets of MTD have been published. However, comprehensive analyses and research on MTD are still absent. In this paper, we present a survey on MTD technologies to scientifically and systematically introduce, categorize, and summarize the existing research works in this field. First, a new security model is introduced to describe the changes in the traditional defense paradigm and security model caused by the introduction of MTD. A function-and-movement model is provided to give a panoramic overview on different perspectives for understanding the existing MTD research works. Then a systematic interpretation of published literature is presented to describe the state of the art of the three main areas in the MTD field, namely, MTD theory, MTD strategy, and MTD evaluation. Specifically, in the area of MTD strategy, the common characteristics shared by the MTD strategies to improve system security and effectiveness are identified and extrapolated. Thereafter, the methods to implement these characteristics are concluded. Moreover, the MTD strategies are classified into three types according to their specific goals, and the necessary and sufficient conditions of each type to create effective MTD strategies are then summarized, which are typically one or more of the aforementioned characteristics. Finally, we provide a number of observations for the future direction in this field, which can be helpful for subsequent researchers.

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“…This means that an attacker can spend as much time as they need collecting data, probing, learning, and analyzing the system to find a weakness. Since the program or system doesn't change, it means that the data being collected is still valid and useful months after it was gathered [4]. An MTD has enough of what is normally stored statically in a system stored dynamically, effectively creating a non-static environment.…”

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The Application of Moving Target Defense to Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Dombrowski

Andel

McDonald

2016

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference

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Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are powerful and flexible pieces of hardware used in a variety of applications. These chips are used in monitoring network traffic, guidance systems, cryptographic calculations, medical devices, embedded systems, as well as many other varied uses. They can be used in a large number of ways as well as in a large number of areas, which allows for nearly limitless applications. Outside of being used as a cryptographic processor and network monitoring, these chips are not being used to directly provide software/hardware security. FPGAs are extremely widespread in addition to becoming more integrated into the systems that they are a part of. This leads to vulnerabilities in almost every system that uses these chips. One way to combat these FPGA based vulnerabilities in every system using them, is to implement a Moving Target Defense (MTD) on the chip itself. FPGA based MTD would allow each FPGA to enhance, rather than weaken, the security of a system. This paper incorporates previous applications of Field Programmable Gate Arrays, and explores potential software/hardware security implementations for these chips through the application of Moving Target Defenses. CCS Concepts • Security and privacy ➝ Security in hardware • Security and privacy ➝ Intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation ➝ Malware and its mitigation

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Command and Control Requirements for Moving-Target Defense

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

Moving Target Defense Techniques: A Survey

Moving Target Defense Techniques: A Survey

Moving target defense: state of the art and characteristics

The Application of Moving Target Defense to Field Programmable Gate Arrays

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