Reactive defense mechanisms, such as intrusion detection systems, have made significant
efforts to secure a system or network for the last several decades. However, the nature of …

Moving target defense (MTD) has emerged as one of the game-changing themes to alter the
asymmetric situation between attacks and defenses in cyber-security. Numerous related …

Driven by the rapid development of the Internet of Things, cloud computing and other
emerging technologies, the connotation of cyberspace is constantly expanding and …

Moving target defense (MTD) has emerged as a proactive defense mechanism aiming to
thwart a potential attacker. The key underlying idea of MTD is to increase uncertainty and …

As the complexity and the scale of networks continue to grow, the management of the
network operations and security defense has become a challenging task for network …

In recent years, both academia and industry in cyber security have tried to develop
innovative defense technologies, expecting that to change the rules of the game between …

Cloud-based systems are subject to various attack types launched by Virtual Machines
(VMs) manipulated by attackers having different goals and skills. The existing detection and …

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for intelligent agents to protect a given
system under highly hostile environments. RL allows the agent to adaptively make …

Abstract Context Michael Howard conceptualized the attack surface of a software system as
a metaphor for risk assessment during the development and maintenance of software. While …

Unlike prior efforts in cybersecurity research, a dynamic defense theory, called moving target
defense, increases the complexity and costs for attacks by effectively restricting the …