A Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic Cyber-Security
Mohammad Rasouli, Erik Miehling, Demos Teneketzis

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Mohammad Rasouli, Erik Miehling, Demos Teneketzis. "A Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic Cyber-Security". IEEE GameSec 2014, 2014.

Abstract
An analytical approach for a dynamic cyber-security problem that captures progressive attacks to a computer network is presented. We formulate the dynamic security problem from the defender’s point of view as a supervisory control problem with imperfect information, modeling the computer network’s operation by a discrete event system. We consider a min-max performance criterion and use dynamic programming to determine, within a restricted set of policies, an optimal policy for the defender. We study and interpret the behavior of this optimal policy as we vary certain parameters of the supervisory control problem.

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  Mohammad Rasouli, Erik Miehling, Demos Teneketzis. "A
  Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic
  Cyber-Security". IEEE GameSec 2014, 2014.

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  @inproceedings{RasouliMiehlingTeneketzis14_SupervisoryControlApproachToDynamicCyberSecurity,
      author = {Mohammad Rasouli and Erik Miehling and Demos
                Teneketzis},
      title = {A Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic
                Cyber-Security},
      booktitle = {IEEE GameSec 2014},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {An analytical approach for a dynamic
                cyber-security problem that captures progressive
                attacks to a computer network is presented. We
                formulate the dynamic security problem from the
                defender’s point of view as a supervisory
                control problem with imperfect information,
                modeling the computer network’s operation by a
                discrete event system. We consider a min-max
                performance criterion and use dynamic programming
                to determine, within a restricted set of policies,
                an optimal policy for the defender. We study and
                interpret the behavior of this optimal policy as
                we vary certain parameters of the supervisory
                control problem. },
      URL = {http://cps-forces.org/pubs/158.html}
  }
  

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