A tutorial on evaluation of network survivability under sophisticated attacker

Author

Lin, Frank Yeong-Sung ; Chen, Pei-Yu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Manage., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Abstract

One of the goals of information security education is to develop students´ skills to solve unseen security vulnerability with contemporary methodologies. This paper presents the teaching of a new algorithm on resource allocation of network attack and defense with mathematical programming for evaluating the network survivability. Adopting a scaffolding technique, students take up a role of a defender so as to minimize the cost of networking operation. Here, by transforming with the mathematical technique and applying the algorithm, gradient method and a proposed heuristic, to optimally solve it.

Keywords

gradient methods; mathematical programming; resource allocation; telecommunication engineering education; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication security; gradient method; information security education; mathematical programming; mathematical technique; network attack; network defense; network survivability; resource allocation; scaffolding technique; sophisticated attacker; Education; Gradient methods; Internet; Mathematical model; Resource management; Security; US Department of Defense; Internet security; defense; network attack; network optimization; network survivability; resource allocation; vulnerability analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2417-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2012.6360319

Filename

6360319