A new architecture for impact projection of cyber-attacks based on high level information fusion in cyber command and control

Authors

1 PhD student, Malik Ashtar University of Technology

2 Associate Professor, Electrical and Electronics University Complex, Malik Ashtar University of Technology

3 Assistant Professor, University Complex of Information Technology, Communication and Security, Malik Ashtar University of Technology

Abstract

Efficient and sustainable command and control networks have appropriate management and security
policies and strong security components. In this kind of networks, even professional invaders for access to
sensitive files or compromising entities such as host, user, service and network, require the implementation
of multi-stage attacks. Therefore using multi-stage information fusion and impact projection of cyberattacks,
it is possible to prevent from interruption in network tasks and lose of important data at very early
stages of them. In this paper, while providing a new architecture of the impact projection of cyber-attacks,
with simulation of different patterns of this architecture in simulation environment specified for random
processes, it will be shown how this architecture using high level information fusion led to improve cyber
situational awareness. For simulation of random processes in the environment will be shown how this architecture
using high level data integration led to the recovery of knowledge positions will be backed cyber.

Keywords


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Volume 2, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
September 2020
Pages 1-14
  • Receive Date: 22 September 2013
  • Revise Date: 21 October 2019
  • Accept Date: 19 September 2018
  • Publish Date: 21 January 2015