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Who Touched My Mission: Towards Probabilistic Mission Impact Assessment

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SafeConfig '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Automated Decision Making for Active Cyber Defense

Pages 21 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/2809826.2809834

Published: 12 October 2015 Publication History

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Cyber attacks inevitably generate impacts towards relevant missions. However, concrete methods to accurately evaluate such impacts are rare. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic approach based on Bayesian networks for quantitative mission impact assessment. A System Object Dependency Graph (SODG) is first built to capture the intrusion propagation process at the low operating system level. On top of the SODG, a mission-task-asset (MTA) map can be established to associate the system objects with corresponding tasks and missions. Based on the MTA map, a Bayesian network can be constructed to leverage the collected intrusion evidence and infer the probabilities of tasks and missions being tainted. This approach is promising for effective quantitative mission impact assessment.

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SafeConfig '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Automated Decision Making for Active Cyber Defense

October 2015

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ISBN:9781450338219

DOI:10.1145/2809826

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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Tennessee Tech University, USA

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