<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Information assurance plays a critical role in modern countries around the globe and IT systems are key elements in this environment. Enabling or disabling such capabilities are strategic goals which dramatically influence a nation capacity to perform thus drawing considerate attention of stakeholders. This research defines a method to deal with cyber threats focused on attacker by using the game theory approach and canonic strategies specific to informational war. The cyber threats corresponding risks are treated through the bimatrix game theory and the strategies for Defender and Challenger game players are adapted from the informational war theory. The authors consider cyber-attacks to be a subcomponent of the informational war and thus they can be handled, with minimal alterations, with instruments from the same wide informational war framework.</p></abstract>

Information assurance plays a critical role in modern countries around the globe and IT systems are key elements in this environment. Enabling or disabling such capabilities are strategic goals which dramatically influence a nation capacity to perform thus drawing considerate attention of stakeholders. This research defines a method to deal with cyber threats focused on attacker by using the game theory approach and canonic strategies specific to informational war. The cyber threats corresponding risks are treated through the bimatrix game theory and the strategies for Defender and Challenger game players are adapted from the informational war theory. The authors consider cyber-attacks to be a subcomponent of the informational war and thus they can be handled, with minimal alterations, with instruments from the same wide informational war framework.

A Cyber Threat Model of a Nation Cyber Infrastructure Based on Goel-Okumoto Port Approach

Land Forces Academy Review

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Information assurance plays a critical role in modern countries around the globe and IT systems are key elements in this environment. Enabling or disabling...

A Cyber Threat Model of a Nation Cyber Infrastructure Based on Goel-Okumoto Port Approach

Publié en ligne: 11 mai 2018

Pages: 75 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2018-0010

Mots clés
cyber-attacks, information security, game theory, information war, cyber infrastructure

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A Cyber Threat Model of a Nation Cyber Infrastructure Based on Goel-Okumoto Port Approach

Publié en ligne: 11 mai 2018

Pages: 75 - 87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2018-0010

Mots cléscyber-attacks, information security, game theory, information war, cyber infrastructure

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
cyber-attacks, information security, game theory, information war, cyber infrastructure