13.6. Benchmarking Intrusion Response Systems
It is important to benchmark any IRS using quantifiable metrics. This is a nascent field within IRS design and development and one which needs significant work to get to maturity. Hence, this section is based around a suggested course of action for future development and an example from an existing IRS, ADEPTS. The metrics should capture the two essential goals of IRSs: to provide gracefully degraded functionality in the presence of attacks and to make a system more robust to future attacks. These two notions are addressed respectively by the metrics survivability and vulnerability.
One commonly accepted definition of survivability is the capacity of a system to provide essential services in the face ...
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