Game Theoretic Risk Analysis of Security Threats

by Bier, Vicki M.; Azaiez, M. Naceur

• ISBN13: 9780387877662
• ISBN10: 0387877665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-07
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Game Theoretic Risk Analysis of Security Threats introduces reliability and risk analysis in the face of threats by intelligent agents. More specifically, game-theoretic models are developed for identifying optimal and/or equilibrium defense and attack strategies in systems of varying degrees of complexity. The book covers applications to networks, including problems in both telecommunications and transportation. However, the book's primary focus is to integrate game theory and reliability methodologies into a set of techniques to predict, detect, diminish, and stop intentional attacks at targets that vary in complexity. In this book, Bier and Azaiez highlight work by researchers who combine reliability and risk analysis with game theory methods to create a set of functional tools that can be used to offset intentional, intelligent threats (including the threats of terrorism and war). A comprehensive treatment of such problems must consider two aspects: (1) the structure of the system to be protected; and (2) the adaptive nature of the threat). The book provides a set of tools for applying game theory TO reliability problems in the presence of intentional, intelligent threats. These tools will help to address problems of global security and also facilitate more cost-effective defensive investments.

Table of Contents

Why both game theory and reliability theory are important in defending infrastructure against intelligent attacks.- Game theory models of intelligent actors in reliability analysis: an overview of the state of the art.- Optimizing defense strategies for complex multi-state systems.- Defending against terrorism, natural disaster, and all hazards.- A Bayesian model for a game of information in optimal attack/defense strategies.- Search for a malevolent needle in a benign haystack.- Games and risk analysis: three examples of single and alternate moves.- Making telecommunications networks resilient against terrorist attacks.- Improving reliability through multi-path routing and link defence: an application of game theory to transport.- Index.