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Cyber attack modeling and simulation for network security analysis

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Michael E. Kuhl,

Jason Kistner,

Kevin Costantini,

Moises SuditAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '07: Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come

Pages 1180 - 1188

Published: 09 December 2007 Publication History

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Cyber security methods are continually being developed. To test these methods many organizations utilize both virtual and physical networks which can be costly and time consuming. As an alternative, in this paper, we present a simulation modeling approach to represent computer networks and intrusion detection systems (IDS) to efficiently simulate cyber attack scenarios. The outcome of the simulation model is a set of IDS alerts that can be used to test and evaluate cyber security systems. In particular, the simulation methodology is designed to test information fusion systems for cyber security that are under development.

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