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Effectiveness and Impact Measurements of a Diversification Based Moving Target Defense

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Moving Target Defense techniques have been proposed to increase uncertainty and apparent complexity for attackers. In this paper, we first study the related work on quantification effectiveness and the impact of a diversification based MTD techniques. Then, we propose a new model that relies mainly on the knowledge that the adversary has about the target system to compute the effectiveness and the impact and also to figure out the optimal MTD diversification of a target system.

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Smine, M., Cuppens, N., Cuppens, F. (2019). Effectiveness and Impact Measurements of a Diversification Based Moving Target Defense. In: Zemmari, A., Mosbah, M., Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Cuppens, F. (eds) Risks and Security of Internet and Systems. CRiSIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11391. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12143-3_14

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