Title : 
Network attack strategy digging based on object Petri net
         
        
            Author : 
Wang Chun-zi ; Huang Guang-qiu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Manage., Xi´an Univ. of Archit. & Technol., Xi´an, China
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
To improve the model ability of network attack and complex system, this paper proposes a global network attack model based on Hierarchical Expanded Stochastic Petri Net. The model is suitable for the cooperative attack simulation and can describe both macroscopic network attack and microcosmic host attack synthetically, with solving the problem of state space explosion. The paper represents model generation algorithm and digs for potential attack relationships among hosts according to the definition of rough path. Then utilize ant colony algorithm to find k-critical vulnerable paths. By estimating rough paths and accurate paths synthetically, the quantitative network risk evaluation method can be acquired.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Petri nets; computer network security; optimisation; state-space methods; stochastic processes; ant colony algorithm; complex system; cooperative attack simulation; critical vulnerable paths; hierarchical expanded stochastic Petri net; macroscopic network attack; microcosmic host attack; network attack strategy digging; object Petri net; potential attack relationships; quantitative network risk evaluation; rough paths; state space explosion; expanded SPN; network security; object Petri net; risk evaluation; rough paths;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE), 2010 3rd International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chengdu
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-6539-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICACTE.2010.5579036