A survey: When moving target defense meets game theory

J Tan, H Jin, H Zhang, Y Zhang, D Chang, X Liu… - Computer Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Moving target defense (MTD) can break through asymmetry between attackers and
defenders. To improve the effectiveness of cybersecurity defense techniques, defense …

A markov decision process to determine optimal policies in moving target

J Zheng, A Siami Namin - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Moving Target Defense (MTD) has been introduced as a new game changer strategy in
cybersecurity to strengthen defenders and conversely weaken adversaries. The successful …

Moving target defense: state of the art and characteristics

G Cai, B Wang, W Hu, T Wang - Frontiers of Information Technology & …, 2016 - Springer
Moving target defense (MTD) has emerged as one of the game-changing themes to alter the
asymmetric situation between attacks and defenses in cyber-security. Numerous related …

Optimal temporospatial strategy selection approach to moving target defense: A FlipIt differential game model

J Tan, H Zhang, H Zhang, H Hu, C Lei, Z Qin - Computers & Security, 2021 - Elsevier
Decision-making on defense against moving targets largely focuses on selection of spatial
strategies, which can lack consideration of optimal defense timing, lack comprehensive …

Incomplete information Markov game theoretic approach to strategy generation for moving target defense

C Lei, HQ Zhang, LM Wan, L Liu, D Ma - Computer Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
With the extensively study on moving target defense, optimal strategy generation has
become one of the key problems in current research. A novel of incomplete information …

Optimal timing of moving target defense: A Stackelberg game model

H Li, Z Zheng - MILCOM 2019-2019 IEEE Military …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an effective approach to thwarting advanced attacks, moving target defense (MTD) has
been applied to various domains. Previous works on MTD, however, mainly focus on …

Spatial-temporal moving target defense: A markov stackelberg game model

H Li, W Shen, Z Zheng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.10390, 2020 - arxiv.org
Moving target defense has emerged as a critical paradigm of protecting a vulnerable system
against persistent and stealthy attacks. To protect a system, a defender proactively changes …

Markov modeling of moving target defense games

H Maleki, S Valizadeh, W Koch, A Bestavros… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a Markov-model-based framework for Moving Target Defense (MTD) analysis.
The framework allows modeling of a broad range of MTD strategies, provides general …

A cost-sensitive move selection strategy for moving target defense

V Zangeneh, M Shajari - Computers & Security, 2018 - Elsevier
The effectiveness and the cost-sensitivity of moving target defense (MTD) strategies have
not been studied thoroughly in previous research. In this paper, we propose a hybrid MTD …

Optimal strategy selection for moving target defense based on Markov game

C Lei, DH Ma, HQ Zhang - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the evolution of the research on network moving target defense (MTD), the selection of
optimal strategy has become one of the key problems in current research. Directed to the …