Title :
Impact analysis of faults and attacks in large-scale networks
Author :
Hariri, Salim ; Qu, Guangzhi ; Dharmagadda, Tushneem ; Ramkishore, Modukuri ; Raghavendra, Cauligi S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Arizona Univ., USA
Abstract :
Monitoring and quantifying component behavior is key to, making networks reliable and robust. The agent-based architecture presented here continuously monitors network vulnerability metrics providing new ways to measure the impact of faults and attacks.
Keywords :
Internet; computer network reliability; fault tolerant computing; security of data; software agents; Internet; agent-based architecture; attack trees; component behavior; graph-based network-vulnerability analysis; large-scale networks; network vulnerability metrics; security systems development; vulnerability index metric; Information analysis; Intelligent networks; Large-scale systems; Monitoring; Network topology; Performance analysis; Privacy; Risk analysis; Tree graphs; Virtual manufacturing;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSECP.2003.1236235