Cybersecurity Dynamics

Abstract

In the course of seeking fundamental concepts that can drive the study of cybersecurity for the many years to come --- just like how concepts such as confidentiality, integrity and availability have been driving the study of information security for decades --- the idea of Cybersecurity Dynamics emerged. Intuitively, Cybersecurity Dynamics describes the evolution of cybersecurity state as caused by cyber attack-defense interactions. By studying Cybersecurity Dynamics, we can characterize the cybersecurity phenomena exhibited in the evolution of cybersecurity state and pin down the factors and laws that govern the evolution. Cybersecurity Dynamics offers a new way of thinking in formulating the ultimately wanted foundation for the science of cybersecurity. One fundamental implication of Cybersecurity Dynamics is that emergent behavior is inherent to cybersecurity. This issue has not been understood, or even recognized, by many researchers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 20, 2014
Accession Number
ADA623537

Entities

People

  • Shouhuai Xu

Organizations

  • University of Texas at San Antonio

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Defense
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Equations
  • Game Theory
  • Network Science
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Strategic Attack
  • Students

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace