Stackelberg games for modeling defense scenarios against cloud security threats
Authors:
- Agnieszka Jakóbik,
- Francesco Palmieri,
- Joanna Kołodziej
Abstract
Stackelberg games may reveal to be extremely useful in supporting decisions in attack-defense scenarios. We call such games Security Stackelberg games. They are characterized by two kinds of players: the defender, who defines his strategy in advance, and the attacker, who follows the defender’s decisions. Security Stackelberg games may be used to model a typical cloud security scenario, where the provider has to expose its defense strategy and the attackers act by following the provider’s actions. In this work we define a model based on Stackelberg games that enables the automatic selection of provider-level security decisions in Cloud Computing environments. Potential Cloud attack scenarios are modeled as nonzero-sum Security Stackelberg games betweenthe attacker and the Cloud provider. This allows the estimation of the strategy that minimizes the reward for the attacker and maximizes the gain of the defender. The model has been experimentally verified to be effective in automatically determining defense strategies from the cloud provider perspective.
- Record ID
- CUT99d874547958482e80b25ec19956a689
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications, ISSN 1084-8045, e-ISSN 1095-8592
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 110
- Pages
- 99-107
- Other elements of collation
- tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 106-107; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 110, Spec. Iss.
- Substantive notes
- Special Issue: SI: Security in Cloud Computing
- Keywords in English
- cloud security, game theory, Stackelberg games, modeling security threats
- DOI
- DOI:10.1016/j.jnca.2018.02.015 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1084804518300663 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 35
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT99d874547958482e80b25ec19956a689/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT99d874547958482e80b25ec19956a689
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