Overview
- Reviews a range of network security models that focus on combining individual metric scores obtained from standard scoring systems, such as CVSS, into an overall measure of network security.
- Devotes several chapters on network security metrics specifically designed with zero day attacks in mind
- Discusses various applications of network security metrics, ranging from network attack graph analytics to performance evaluation for security operation centers.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This book examines different aspects of network security metrics and their application to enterprise networks. One of the most pertinent issues in securing mission-critical computing networks is the lack of effective security metrics which this book discusses in detail. Since “you cannot improve what you cannot measure”, a network security metric is essential to evaluating the relative effectiveness of potential network security solutions.
The authors start by examining the limitations of existing solutions and standards on security metrics, such as CVSS and attack surface, which typically focus on known vulnerabilities in individual software products or systems. The first few chapters of this book describe different approaches to fusing individual metric values obtained from CVSS scores into an overall measure of network security using attack graphs. Since CVSS scores are only available for previously known vulnerabilities, such approaches do not consider the threat of unknownattacks exploiting the so-called zero day vulnerabilities. Therefore, several chapters of this book are dedicated to develop network security metrics especially designed for dealing with zero day attacks where the challenge is that little or no prior knowledge is available about the exploited vulnerabilities, and thus most existing methodologies for designing security metrics are no longer effective.Finally, the authors examine several issues on the application of network security metrics at the enterprise level. Specifically, a chapter presents a suite of security metrics organized along several dimensions for measuring and visualizing different aspects of the enterprise cyber security risk, and the last chapter presents a novel metric for measuring the operational effectiveness of the cyber security operations center (CSOC).
Security researchers who work on network security or security analytics related areas seeking new research topics, as well as security practitioners including network administrators and security architects who are looking for state of the art approaches to hardening their networks, will find this book helpful as a reference. Advanced-level students studying computer science and engineering will find this book useful as a secondary text.Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Network Security Metrics
Authors: Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66505-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66504-7Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88259-8Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66505-4Published: 15 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 207
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Computer Communication Networks, Cryptology