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Game-Theoretic Analysis of Cyber Deception: Evidence-Based Strategies and Dynamic Risk Mitigation
Tao Zhang, Linan Huang, Jeffrey Pawlick +1
Deception is a technique to mislead human or computer systems by manipulating beliefs and information. For the applications of cyber deception, non-cooperative games become a natur…
iSTRICT: An Interdependent Strategic Trust Mechanism for the Cloud-Enabled Internet of Controlled Things
Jeffrey Pawlick, Juntao Chen, Quanyan Zhu
The cloud-enabled Internet of controlled things (IoCT) envisions a network of sensors, controllers, and actuators connected through a local cloud in order to intelligently control…
Modeling and Analysis of Leaky Deception using Signaling Games with Evidence
Jeffrey Pawlick, Edward Colbert, Quanyan Zhu
Deception plays critical roles in economics and technology, especially in emerging interactions in cyberspace. Holistic models of deception are needed in order to analyze interacti…
A Game-Theoretic Taxonomy and Survey of Defensive Deception for Cybersecurity and Privacy
Jeffrey Pawlick, Edward Colbert, Quanyan Zhu
Cyberattacks on both databases and critical infrastructure have threatened public and private sectors. Ubiquitous tracking and wearable computing have infringed upon privacy. Advoc…
Quantitative Models of Imperfect Deception in Network Security using Signaling Games with Evidence
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
Deception plays a critical role in many interactions in communication and network security. Game-theoretic models called "cheap talk signaling games" capture the dynamic and inform…
Optimal Timing in Dynamic and Robust Attacker Engagement During Advanced Persistent Threats
Jeffrey Pawlick, Thi Thu Hang Nguyen, Edward Colbert +1
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are stealthy attacks which make use of social engineering and deception to give adversaries insider access to networked systems. Against APTs, ac…
Proactive Defense Against Physical Denial of Service Attacks using Poisson Signaling Games
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
While the Internet of things (IoT) promises to improve areas such as energy efficiency, health care, and transportation, it is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In particular, dis…
A Mean-Field Stackelberg Game Approach for Obfuscation Adoption in Empirical Risk Minimization
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
Data ecosystems are becoming larger and more complex due to online tracking, wearable computing, and the Internet of Things. But privacy concerns are threatening to erode the poten…
Proactive Population-Risk Based Defense Against Denial of Cyber-Physical Service Attacks
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
While the Internet of things (IoT) promises to improve areas such as energy efficiency, health care, and transportation, it is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In particular, DDo…
Phishing for Phools in the Internet of Things: Modeling One-to-Many Deception using Poisson Signaling Games
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
Strategic interactions ranging from politics and pharmaceuticals to e-commerce and social networks support equilibria in which agents with private information manipulate others whi…
A Stackelberg Game Perspective on the Conflict Between Machine Learning and Data Obfuscation
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
Data is the new oil; this refrain is repeated extensively in the age of internet tracking, machine learning, and data analytics. As data collection becomes more personal and pervas…
A Stackelberg Game Perspective on the Conflict Between Machine Learning and Data Obfuscation
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
Data is the new oil; this refrain is repeated extensively in the age of internet tracking, machine learning, and data analytics. Social network analysis, cookie-based advertising,…
Two-Party Privacy Games: How Users Perturb When Learners Preempt
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
Internet tracking technologies and wearable electronics provide a vast amount of data to machine learning algorithms. This stock of data stands to increase with the developments of…
Flip the Cloud: Cyber-Physical Signaling Games in the Presence of Advanced Persistent Threats
Jeffrey Pawlick, Sadegh Farhang, Quanyan Zhu
Access to the cloud has the potential to provide scalable and cost effective enhancements of physical devices through the use of advanced computational processes run on apparently…
Protection and Deception: Discovering Game Theory and Cyber Literacy through a Novel Board Game Experience
Saboor Zahir, John Pak, Jatinder Singh +2
Cyber literacy merits serious research attention because it addresses a confluence of specialization and generalization; cybersecurity is often conceived of as approachable only by…
Deception by Design: Evidence-Based Signaling Games for Network Defense
Jeffrey Pawlick, Quanyan Zhu
Deception plays a critical role in the financial industry, online markets, national defense, and countless other areas. Understanding and harnessing deception - especially in cyber…