Game-theoretical cyber deception strategy generation based on honeynet and intrusion prediction

Abstract

Cyber deception is a critical component of proactive cyber defense. It releases false information about devices, applications and networks to attackers to mislead attackers, sabotage attack actions and mitigate impact of intrusion based on cyber deception strategy. There have been many researches about cyber deception strategy. Most of them consider the process of cyber attack and defense as non-cooperative game theory model and design algorithms to find optimal solutions. However, most existing researches abstract attackers and defenders into simple characters, having limitations in applicability. To supplement this part of research, we introduce intrusion prediction and honeynet to game-theoretical cyber deception and propose a novel cyber deception strategy model. We run some simulations to verify the effectiveness of our proposed model. Based on the simulation results, the rules of multi-stage cyber deception and model application are summarized, which can provide a novel and effective guidance of cyber deception.