Improving Operation Time Bounded Mission Critical Systems' Attack-Survivability through Controlled Source-Code Transformation

Abstract

Mission critical systems often operate for limit time durations. For these systems, we subscribe to the notion that provisioning of security can be based on the expected duration of a system's mission. In this paper, we present a simple and safe K - variant approach to improve time-based mission critical systems' attack-survivability and provide formal analysis about K - variant system's attack survivability under M memory-based attack attempts. Our theoretical analysis supported by extensive simulations and a case study provide good evidences that the proposed approach may be in improving system's attack-survivability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA560899

Entities

People

  • Alban Vignaux
  • Arnaud Auguste
  • Bogdan Korel
  • Kevin Kwiat
  • Shangping Ren

Organizations

  • Illinois Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Case Studies
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Life Cycles
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Survivability
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design