Host Immunity via Mutable Virtualized Large-Scale Network Containers

Abstract

The relatively static configurations of networks and their hosts allow attackers to gather intelligence, perform planning, and execute attacks at will. We propose a scalable, dynamic, adaptive system for host immunity that combines virtualization, emulation, and mutable network configurations. This system is deployed on a single host, and provides host protection through hiding the real system among a large number of decoys with dynamic virtualized network topology. It will make the network scanner and intruder spend more time and effort on attacking the worthless targets (decoys).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 25, 2016
Accession Number
AD1012862

Entities

People

  • Kun Sun

Organizations

  • College of William & Mary

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Containers
  • Defense Mechanisms
  • Host Computers
  • Identification
  • Immunity
  • Information Operations
  • Machine Learning
  • Moving Target Defense
  • Moving Targets
  • Network Topology
  • Networks
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Topology
  • Transport Protocols

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.