Secure Team Composition to Thwart Insider Threats and Cyber-Espionage

Abstract

We develop a formal nondeterministic game model for secure team composition to counter cyber-espionage and to protect organizational secrets against an attacker who tries to sidestep technical security mechanisms by offering a bribe to a project team member. The game captures the adversarial interaction between the attacker and the project manager who has a secret she wants to protect but must share with a team of individuals selected from within her organization. Our interdisciplinary work is important in the face of the multipronged approaches utilized by well-motivated attackers to circumvent the fortifications of otherwise well-defended targets.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 28, 2014
Source ID
10.1145/2663499

Entities

People

  • Aron Laszka
  • Benjamin N. Johnson
  • Jens Grossklags
  • Pascal Schöttle
  • Rainer Böhme

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • University of Münster

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber