ATSyRa: An Integrated Environment for Synthesizing Attack Trees

Abstract

Attack trees are widely considered in the fields of security for the analysis of risks (or threats) against electronics, computer control, or physical systems. A major barrier is that attack trees can become largely complex and thus hard to specify. This paper presents ATSyRA, a tooling environment to automatically synthesize attack trees of a system under study. ATSyRA provides advanced editors to specify high-level descriptions of a system, high-level actions to structure the tree, and ways to interactively refine the synthesis. We illustrate how users can specify a military building, abstract and organize attacks, and eventually obtain a readable attack tree.