Description
Overwhelming intrusion alerts have made timely response to network security breaches a difficult task. Correlating alerts to produce a higher level view of intrusion state of a network, thus, becomes an essential element in network defense. This work proposes to analyze correlated or grouped alerts and determine their ‘impact’ to services and users of the network. A network is modeled as ‘virtual terrain’ where cyber attacks maneuver. Overlaying correlated attack tracks on virtual terrain exhibits the vulnerabilities exploited by each track and the relationships between them and different network entities. The proposed impact assessment algorithm utilizes the graph-based virtual terrain model and combines assessments of damages caused by the attacks. The combined impact scores allow to identify severely damaged network services and affected users. Several scenarios are examined to demonstrate the uses of the proposed Virtual Terrain Assisted Impact Assessment for Cyber Attacks (VTAC).
Date of creation, presentation, or exhibit
3-17-2008
Document Type
Conference Paper
Department, Program, or Center
Computer Engineering (KGCOE)
Recommended Citation
Brian J. Argauer, Shanchieh Jay Yang, "VTAC: virtual terrain assisted impact assessment for cyber attacks", Proc. SPIE 6973, Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance, and Data Networks Security 2008, 69730F (17 March 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.777291; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777291
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
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