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Title: A Layered Decision Model for Cost-Effective Network Defense

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OSTI ID:877042

Network safeguarding practices involve decisions in at least three areas: identification of well-defined security policies, selection of cost-effective defense strategies and implementation of real-time defense tactics. Although choices made in each of the three affect the others, many existing decision models handle these three decision areas in isolation. There is no comprehensive tool that can integrate them to provide a single efficient model for safeguarding a network. In addition, there is no clear way to determine which particular combinations of defense decisions result in cost-effective solutions. To address these problems, this paper introduces a layered decision model (LDM) for use in deciding how to address defense decisions based on cost-effectiveness. To illustrate the technique, the LDM model is applied to the design of network defense for a sample e-commercial business.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
877042
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-45593; TRN: US200608%%262
Resource Relation:
Conference: Information Reuse and Integration Conference, IRI-2005, August 15-17, 2005 Las Vegas, Nevada, 506-511
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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