System Tolerance Oriented Network Security Situational Assessment

Attack and defense is the two important aspects of network security issue. Network security situational assessment has focused on attack roundly. Numbers of network security situational assessment models have been put forward based on attack and threat. Those methods have obtained good results. On the other hand, defense lacks careful consideration. Defense embodies system tolerance. System tolerance contains three important factors: system tolerance to attack, system asset tolerance, and system survivability. The article will introduce a network security situational assessment model based on attack and defense. Consult the existent models of network security situational assessment to summarize a hierarchical model. The hierarchical model based on attack mainly. Then we will use the three factors of system tolerance to mend the model. The new hierarchical model based on attack and defense will be closer to realistic security situation status. The corresponding experiment proves that the improved model considered attack and defense has better effect.