| Port scanning is a commonly applied technique in the discovery phase of cyber attacks. As such, defending against them has long been the subject of many research and modeling efforts. Though modeling efforts can search large parameter spaces to find effective defensive parameter settings, confidence in modeling results can be hampered by limited or omitted validation efforts. In this paper, we introduce a novel, mathematical model that describes port scanning progress by an attacker and intrusion detec-tion by a defender. |
