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 …

Traffic classification acquired the interest of the Internet community early on. Different
approaches have been proposed to classify Internet traffic to manage both security 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 …

Web applications are a critical component of the security ecosystem as they are often the
front door for many companies, as such, vulnerabilities in web applications allow hackers …

This survey provides an overview of different cyber moving-target techniques, their threat
models, and their technical details. A cyber moving-target technique refers to any technique …

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 …

Vulnerabilities in web applications allow hackers to access and/or modify restricted data.
Here the hackers have the opportunity to perform reconnaissance so as to gain knowledge …

Abstract Industrial Control Systems are used in a wide variety of industrial facilities, including
critical infrastructures, becoming the main target of multiple security attacks. A malicious and …

Due to the complexity of attack scenarios in the container-based cloud environment and the
continuous changes in the state of microservices, the effectiveness of active defense …

Represented by reactive security defense mechanisms, cyber defense possesses a static,
reactive, and deterministic nature, with overwhelmingly high costs to defend against ever …