Dominion: A Game of Information Exploitation

FlipIt is an abstract cyber-security game published in 2012 to investigate optimal strategies for managing security resources in response to Advanced Persistent Threats. In this thesis, we place FlipIt within a more general category of 'stealthy move' games, and provide an approach towards solving such games. We produce a new stealthy move game, 'Dominion', and derive Nash equilibria for it. We establish bounds for the optimal rates of play and benefits for FlipIt, and show that the best strategy to apply to real cyber security threats includes presenting a credible threat to potential players. We also explore the effects of initial game information asymmetry in Dominion.

Name thesis:degree_name

Computer Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Computer Science

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Hobbs, Jacob

Contributors dc:contributor

• Estrada, Trilce
• Forrest, Stephanie
• Verzi, Stephen

• FlipIt
• cyber security
• game theory
• stealthy move game

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cs_etds/71

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:cs_etds-1070