A Multiple Criteria Decision Making Model for CNO Attack Scheme Evaluation

Computer network operation (CNO) decision making activity includes three sub-activities: mission definition, scheme design and scheme evaluation. Scheme design produces many attack schemes of the same target. During scheme evaluation, attack schemes are evaluated and the comparatively optimal one is selected as course of action (COA) based on certain criterions. In this study, a multiple criteria decision making model is proposed to evaluate CNO attack schemes. Attack effects, costs and risks of attack tasks and attack paths are considered and evaluated to select an optimal scheme. As a multiple criteria decision making method that combines both qualitative and quantitative analysis, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is introduced and applied in the model. An experiment is conducted to illustrate the availability and effectiveness of the decision making model.