FIGHTING THE VIRUS

Many of the words used to describe disease ('infection', 'transmission', 'virus') are also used to characterize cyber security (for example: a computer is infected by a virus that can be transmitted to other current uninfected computers). This correspondence is much more than a convenient metaphor, and the aim of this book is to show how the models developed to understand the dynamics of infection, recovery, and possible reinfection in disease can be applied to understand attack, compromise, and recovery of components of a cyber system and how such attacks affect performance of the cyber system or its dependent enabled physical system.

Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• About the Author
• Summary of Major Insights
• Population Biology and Process Modeling of Cyber Operations
• The Pulse Attack Model
• The Fundamental Model of Simultaneous Cyber Operations
• Beyond Determinism: Stochastic Versions of the PAM and FMSCO
• Extensions of the Pulse Attack Model
• Extensions of the Fundamental Model of Simultaneous Cyber Operations
• Including a Distribution in Vulnerability in the Pulse Attack Model
• Bon Voyage: Future Directions
• Appendix: Glossary of Terminology, Symbols, Equations
• Bibliography
• Index

Readership: This is a combination of research monograph and textbook, suitable for use in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses and also intended for established researchers — both workers in the population biology of disease and in cyber security.