Adversarial organization modeling for network attack/defense

Abstract

To appropriately address the problem of large-scale distributed cyber attacks and defenses, issues such as information exchange, work division and coordination must be addressed. We believe that focusing on logical foundations for information assurance construction provides the theme that drives how various defense components work together. This paper proposes an opponent agent's mental model based on the theory of Belief-Desire-Intention, adopts the notions of agent, group and role to specify the organizational structure of distributed network attacks/defenses, and applies the computational framework of agent team to model organizational dynamics of network attacks/defenses. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.