Cyber Warfare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Cyber War Games: Strategic Jostling Among Traditional Adversaries

   • Sanjay Goel, Yuan Hong

   Pages 1-13

3. Alternatives to Cyber Warfare: Deterrence and Assurance

   • Robert J. Elder, Alexander H. Levis, Bahram Yousefi

   Pages 15-35

4. Identifying and Exploiting the Cyber High Ground for Botnets

   • Patrick Sweeney, George Cybenko

   Pages 37-56

5. Attribution, Temptation, and Expectation: A Formal Framework for Defense-by-Deception in Cyberwarfare

   • Ehab Al-Shaer, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman

   Pages 57-80

6. Game-Theoretic Foundations for the Strategic Use of Honeypots in Network Security

   • Christopher Kiekintveld, Viliam Lisý, Radek Píbil

   Pages 81-101

7. Cyber Counterdeception: How to Detect Denial & Deception (D&D)

   • Kristin E. Heckman, Frank J. Stech

   Pages 103-140

8. Automated Adversary Profiling

   • Samuel N. Hamilton

   Pages 141-149

9. Cyber Attribution: An Argumentation-Based Approach

   • Paulo Shakarian, Gerardo I. Simari, Geoffrey Moores, Simon Parsons

   Pages 151-171

10. The Human Factor in Cybersecurity: Robust & Intelligent Defense

    • Julie L. Marble, W. F. Lawless, Ranjeev Mittu, Joseph Coyne, Myriam Abramson, Ciara Sibley

    Pages 173-206

11. CyberWar Game: A Paradigm for Understanding New Challenges of Cyber War

    • Noam Ben-Asher, Cleotilde Gonzalez

    Pages 207-220

12. Active Discovery of Hidden Profiles in Social Networks Using Malware

    • Rami Puzis, Yuval Elovici

    Pages 221-235

13. A Survey of Community Detection Algorithms Based On Analysis-Intent

    • Napoleon C. Paxton, Stephen Russell, Ira S. Moskowitz, Paul Hyden

    Pages 237-263

14. Understanding the Vulnerability Lifecycle for Risk Assessment and Defense Against Sophisticated Cyber Attacks

    • Tudor Dumitraş

    Pages 265-285

15. Graph Mining for Cyber Security

    • B. Aditya Prakash

    Pages 287-306

16. Programming Language Theoretic Security in the Real World: A Mirage or the Future?

    • Andrew Ruef, Chris Rohlf

    Pages 307-321

This book features a wide spectrum of the latest computer science research relating to cyber warfare, including military and policy dimensions. It is the first book to explore the scientific foundation of cyber warfare and features research from the areas of artificial intelligence, game theory, programming languages, graph theory and more. The high-level approach and emphasis on scientific rigor provides insights on ways to improve cyber warfare defense worldwide. Cyber Warfare: Building the Scientific Foundation targets researchers and practitioners working in cyber security, especially government employees or contractors. Advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering with an interest in security will also find this content valuable as a secondary textbook or reference.

• Argumentation based approach
• Automated adversary profiling
• Botnets
• Cyber attacks
• Cyber attribution
• Cyber counterdeception
• Cyber warfare
• Cybersecurity
• Game theory
• Malware
• Network security
• Risk assessment

“This collection of basic research is designed for advanced students and practitioners. … As is typical of the Springer series, the information is quite current and advanced. Each chapter is a standalone paper with its own list of references at the end … . the book is one to include on your reference shelf.” (Brad Reid, Computing Reviews, July 2015)

• Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Sushil Jajodia

• Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

  Paulo Shakarian

• Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  V.S. Subrahmanian

• The MITRE Corporation, McLean, USA

  Vipin Swarup

• Information Sciences Directorate, Triangle Park, USA

  Cliff Wang

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