Multilevel decentralized protection scheme based on moving targets

Abstract

The present paper reviews the scheme for protection of information resources from attempts to research them by intruders on the reconnaissance stage. Current drawbacks of the popular protection technology of Moving Target Defense (MTD) are analyzed herein. The paper offers a theoretical model of a system's operation when it can diversify itself by introducing dynamic variables. Such transformation is enabled by turning each process into an "interface" for another process and distributes new interaction rules to all legal processes. Hence, the established system is not static, but dynamic and all information related to the system and obtained at one moment in time becomes irrelevant with time. A practical method for protecting a local network from scanning is offered herein. Potential difficulties and solutions for implementation of the scheme are reviewed.