Intelligent Systems for Security Informatics

Chapter 2

Proactive Cyber Defense

Richard Colbaugh and Kristin Glass, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Chapter Outline

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Proactive Filters

2.2.1 Preliminaries

2.2.2 Algorithm 1: Transfer Learning

Algorithm evaluation

2.2.3 Algorithm 2: Synthetic Attack Generation

Proposed algorithm

Algorithm evaluation

2.3 Early Warning

2.3.1 Preliminaries

2.3.2 Early Warning Method

2.3.3 Case Study: Politically Motivated DDoS

2.4 Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments

References

2.1 Introduction

Rapidly advancing technologies and evolving operational practices and requirements increasingly drive both private and public sector enterprises toward highly interconnected and technologically convergent information networks. ...