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Integrated Resource Allocation and Strategy Synthesis in Safety Games on Graphs with Deception
Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Matthew S. Cohen, Charles A. Kamhoua +1
Deception plays a crucial role in strategic interactions with incomplete information. Motivated by security applications, we study a class of two-player turn-based deterministic ga…
Honeypot Allocation for Cyber Deception in Dynamic Tactical Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach
Md Abu Sayed, Ahmed H. Anwar, Christopher Kiekintveld +1
Honeypots play a crucial role in implementing various cyber deception techniques as they possess the capability to divert attackers away from valuable assets. Careful strategic pla…
Cyber Deception against Zero-day Attacks: A Game Theoretic Approach
Md Abu Sayed, Ahmed H. Anwar, Christopher Kiekintveld +2
Reconnaissance activities precedent other attack steps in the cyber kill chain. Zero-day attacks exploit unknown vulnerabilities and give attackers the upper hand against conventio…
Optimizing Sensor Allocation against Attackers with Uncertain Intentions: A Worst-Case Regret Minimization Approach
Haoxiang Ma, Shuo Han, Charles A. Kamhoua +1
This paper is concerned with the optimal allocation of detection resources (sensors) to mitigate multi-stage attacks, in the presence of the defender's uncertainty in the attacker'…
Incentivizing Data Contribution in Cross-Silo Federated Learning
Chao Huang, Shuqi Ke, Charles Kamhoua +2
In cross-silo federated learning, clients (e.g., organizations) train a shared global model using local data. However, due to privacy concerns, the clients may not contribute enoug…
Learning Generative Deception Strategies in Combinatorial Masking Games
Junlin Wu, Charles Kamhoua, Murat Kantarcioglu +1
Deception is a crucial tool in the cyberdefence repertoire, enabling defenders to leverage their informational advantage to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks. One way dec…
Foureye: Defensive Deception based on Hypergame Theory Against Advanced Persistent Threats
Zelin Wan, Jin-Hee Cho, Mu Zhu +3
Defensive deception techniques have emerged as a promising proactive defense mechanism to mislead an attacker and thereby achieve attack failure. However, most game-theoretic defen…
Decoy Allocation Games on Graphs with Temporal Logic Objectives
Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Jie Fu, Huan Luo +2
We study a class of games, in which the adversary (attacker) is to satisfy a complex mission specified in linear temporal logic, and the defender is to prevent the adversary from a…
Deceptive Labeling: Hypergames on Graphs for Stealthy Deception
Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Huan Luo, Nandi O. Leslie +2
With the increasing sophistication of attacks on cyber-physical systems, deception has emerged as an effective tool to improve system security and safety by obfuscating the attacke…
Secure-by-synthesis network with active deception and temporal logic specifications
Jie Fu, Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Huan Luo +2
This paper is concerned with the synthesis of strategies in network systems with active cyber deception. Active deception in a network employs decoy systems and other defenses to c…
Compact Representation of Value Function in Partially Observable Stochastic Games
Karel Horák, Branislav Bošanský, Christopher Kiekintveld +1
Value methods for solving stochastic games with partial observability model the uncertainty about states of the game as a probability distribution over possible states. The dimensi…