The New Progress of Motive Target Defense Technology

Abstract

The concept of moving target defense (MTD) is an excellent solution proposed in USA to make the defender become dominant player while the defender is the disadvantage one in the game of defender and attacker. Focus on summarized the attack surface characteristic and functional connotation of moving target defense, according to the hierarchy in the execution stack, this paper classified and analyzed current moving target defense technologies into four categories, such as dynamic communication network, dynamic communication run-time environment, dynamic communication data and dynamic communication application, described the theory of every mechanism in each category, summarized the advantages and disadvantages of each mechanism. On the basis of the study of current mechanisms of moving target defense technologies, this paper designed a moving target defense system based on terminal information hopping and analyzed its anti-attack performance. The experiment result proven that system can effectively increase the time consumption and complexity of successful attack, and decrease successful attack rate by continually shifting the attack surface, our design greatly improved the strength of inactive defense. This study can provide the theoretical guidance for the design and implementation of mutimechanisms moving target defense systems.