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Using Multiplex Networks to Model Cybersecurity Attack Profiles

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Recent research in cybersecurity models the nature of attacks as graphs consisting of nodes that represent attacks and their properties, forming attack profiles. We examine the relationships between attack profiles based on established properties of the attacks to reduce the amount of information present in the graph and make them more applicable to cloud and big data environments. This is done by using multiplex networks, which are constructed based on the individual properties of cyber-attacks and reasoning rules enhanced with semantics and context to generate a multiplex semantic link network (mSLN). This paper presents an approach to generate mSLNs and it is evaluated with specific datasets.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA

    Manesh Pillai & George Karabatis

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  1. ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Christophe Debruyne

  2. University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. TU Graz, Graz, Austria

    Robert Meersman

  4. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  5. Institute of Computer Languages, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    eva Kühn

  6. ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Declan O'Sullivan

  7. Università degli Studi di Milano Crema, Crema, Italy

    Claudio Agostino Ardagna

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Pillai, M., Karabatis, G. (2016). Using Multiplex Networks to Model Cybersecurity Attack Profiles. In: Debruyne, C., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Conferences. OTM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10033. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48472-3_58

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