3 papers
cs.CR2021
Quantifying Cybersecurity Effectiveness of Software Diversity
Huashan Chen, Richard B. Garcia-Lebron, Zheyuan Sun +2
The deployment of monoculture software stacks can cause a devastating damage even by a single exploit against a single vulnerability. Inspired by the resilience benefit of biologic…
cs.SI2018
Node Diversification in Complex Networks by Decentralized Coloring
Richard Garcia-Lebron, David J. Myers, Shouhuai Xu +1
We develop a decentralized coloring approach to diversify the nodes in a complex network. The key is the introduction of a local conflict index that measures the color conflicts ar…
cs.CR2016
A Survey on Security Metrics
Marcus Pendleton, Richard Garcia-Lebron, Shouhuai Xu
The importance of security metrics can hardly be overstated. Despite the attention that has been paid by the academia, government and industry in the past decades, this important p…