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Title: Ant-Based Cyber Security

Abstract

We describe a swarming-agent-based, mixed-initiative approach to infrastructure defense where teams of humans and software agents defend cooperating organizations in tandem by sharing insights and solutions without violating proprietary boundaries. The system places human administrators at the appropriate level where they provide system guidance while lower-level agents carry out tasks humans are unable to perform quickly enough to mitigate today’s security threats. Cooperative Infrastructure Defense (CID) uses our ant-based approach to enable dialogue between humans and agents to foster a collaborative problem-solving environment, increase human situational awareness and influence using visualization and shared control. We discuss theoretical implementation characteristics along with results from recent proof-of-concept implementations.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1024086
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-77686
830403000; TRN: US201119%%83
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 8th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2011), April 11-13, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, 918-926
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; IMPLEMENTATION; SECURITY; COMPUTERS; COMPUTER CODES; PROGRAMMING; agents; cyber security

Citation Formats

Haack, Jereme N, Fink, Glenn A, Maiden, Wendy M, McKinnon, Archibald D, Templeton, Steven J, and Fulp, Errin W. Ant-Based Cyber Security. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.1109/ITNG.2011.159.
Haack, Jereme N, Fink, Glenn A, Maiden, Wendy M, McKinnon, Archibald D, Templeton, Steven J, & Fulp, Errin W. Ant-Based Cyber Security. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2011.159
Haack, Jereme N, Fink, Glenn A, Maiden, Wendy M, McKinnon, Archibald D, Templeton, Steven J, and Fulp, Errin W. 2011. "Ant-Based Cyber Security". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2011.159.
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abstractNote = {We describe a swarming-agent-based, mixed-initiative approach to infrastructure defense where teams of humans and software agents defend cooperating organizations in tandem by sharing insights and solutions without violating proprietary boundaries. The system places human administrators at the appropriate level where they provide system guidance while lower-level agents carry out tasks humans are unable to perform quickly enough to mitigate today’s security threats. Cooperative Infrastructure Defense (CID) uses our ant-based approach to enable dialogue between humans and agents to foster a collaborative problem-solving environment, increase human situational awareness and influence using visualization and shared control. We discuss theoretical implementation characteristics along with results from recent proof-of-concept implementations.},
doi = {10.1109/ITNG.2011.159},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Tue Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
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