Toward proactive, adaptive defense: A survey on moving target defense

JH Cho, DP Sharma, H Alavizadeh… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

When moving target defense meets attack prediction in digital twins: A convolutional and hierarchical reinforcement learning approach

T Zhang, C Xu, Y Lian, H Tian, J Kang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With rapid development of emerging technologies for Internet of Things (IoT), digital twins
(DT) have been proposed to support a wide variety of applications. A mobile network is …

Moving Target Defense Meets Artificial Intelligence-Driven Network: A Comprehensive Survey

T Zhang, F Kong, D Deng, X Tang, X Wu… - IEEE Internet of …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks, cloud-edge-terminal architecture can
provide powerful computing, intelligent interconnection, and real-time response, which can …

How to disturb network reconnaissance: a moving target defense approach based on deep reinforcement learning

T Zhang, C Xu, J Shen, X Kuang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the explosive growth of Internet traffic, large sensitive and valuable information is at risk
of cyber attacks, which are mostly preceded by network reconnaissance. A moving target …

Attack graph-based moving target defense in software-defined networks

S Yoon, JH Cho, DS Kim, TJ Moore… - … on Network and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Dolos: A novel architecture for moving target defense

G Pagnotta, F De Gaspari, D Hitaj… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Moving Target Defense and Cyber Deception emerged in recent years as two key proactive
cyber defense approaches, contrasting with the static nature of the traditional reactive cyber …

Securing control and data planes from reconnaissance attacks using distributed shadow controllers, reactive and proactive approaches

MF Hyder, MA Ismail - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Moving Target Defense (MTD) is an emerging proactive Cyber Security approach. MTD
constantly changes the attack surface for making cyber-attacks difficult for the invaders …

A Double-benefit moving target defense against cyber–physical attacks in smart grid

Z Zhang, Y Tian, R Deng, J Ma - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The smart grid (SG), as one of the largest evolutionary critical infrastructures, witnesses the
deep integration of electricity facilities and Internet of Things (IoT). But recent events show …

DIVERGENCE: Deep reinforcement learning-based adaptive traffic inspection and moving target defense countermeasure framework

S Kim, S Yoon, JH Cho, DS Kim… - … on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A survey on moving target defense for networks: A practical view

Ł Jalowski, M Zmuda, M Rawski - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The static nature of many of currently used network systems has multiple practical benefits,
including cost optimization and ease of deployment, but it makes them vulnerable to …