| Title | SCPN-Based Game Model for Security Situational Awareness in the Intenet of Things |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | He, F., Zhang, Y., Liu, H., Zhou, W. |
| Conference Name | 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) |
| Keywords | Androids, complex smart environment, composability, computer network security, decision making, game theory, Games, GT, heterogeneous devices, Internet of Things, IoT, IoT-based SCPN, IoT-based smart environment, Metrics, Petri nets, potential attack paths, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, SCPN, SCPN-based game model, security, security situational awareness, security situational awareness model, situational awareness, smart home environment, Smart homes, stochastic colored Petri net, typical attack scenarios |
| Abstract | Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by various of heterogeneous devices that facing numerous threats, which makes modeling security situation of IoT still a certain challenge. This paper defines a Stochastic Colored Petri Net (SCPN) for IoT-based smart environment and then proposes a Game model for security situational awareness. All possible attack paths are computed by the SCPN, and antagonistic behavior of both attackers and defenders are taken into consideration dynamically according to Game Theory (GT). Experiments on two typical attack scenarios in smart home environment demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. The proposed model can form a macroscopic trend curve of the security situation. Analysis of the results shows the capabilities of the proposed model in finding vulnerable devices and potential attack paths, and even facilitating the choice of defense strategy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use Game Theory in the IoT-based SCPN to establish a security situational awareness model for a complex smart environment. |
| DOI | 10.1109/CNS.2018.8433188 |
| Citation Key | he_scpn-based_2018 |
SCPN-Based Game Model for Security Situational Awareness in the Intenet of Things