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A preliminary application of generalized fault trees to security

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Abstract

Fault trees (FT) are widespread models in the field of reliability, but they lack of modelling power. So, in the literature, several extensions have been proposed and introduced specific new modelling primitives. Attack trees (AT) have gained acceptance in the field of security. They follow the same notation of standard FT, but they represent the combinations of actions necessary for the success of an attack to a computing system. In this paper, we extend the AT formalism by exploiting the new primitives introduced in the FT extensions. This leads to more accurate models. The approach is applied to a case study: The AT is exploited to represent the attack mode and compute specific quantitative measures about the system security.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICETE 2013 - 10th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications; SECRYPT 2013 - 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Proceedings
Pages609-614
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2013 - Part of 10th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2013 - Reykjavik, Iceland
Duration: 29 Jul 201331 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameICETE 2013 - 10th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications; SECRYPT 2013 - 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Proceedings

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2013 - Part of 10th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2013
Country/TerritoryIceland
CityReykjavik
Period29/07/1331/07/13

Keywords

  • Attack trees
  • Dynamic gates
  • Fault trees
  • Parametric form
  • Petri nets
  • Reliability
  • Repair box
  • Security
  • Simulation

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