3.5. Scope and Achievements of Epidemics
The previous brief presentation of some of the most popular epidemics models for malware propagation and some other miscellaneous malware modeling approaches allows observing and documenting characteristic facts and emerging trends that describe the more traditional malware modeling cumulatively. We summarize these general trends in the following and note that in most cases, such facets of traditional malware diffusion modeling, especially epidemics, have motivated the more advanced approaches presented in the subsequent sections of this book.
Strictly speaking, worm propagation is a discrete event process. The evolution of the process is according to the specific events taking place and indicating broader ...
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