2-Player Game With Uncertainty to Protect Mission Critical Information Over Blue Networks

摘要

This project uses game theory to develop a non-cooperative game with a defender and an intruder. The defender attempts to protect critical information on his system using the available resources efficiently while the intruder seeks to obtain that information without being detected by the defender. This defender will defend using a different combination of only three defensive resources: encryption, distributed data, and fake honeypots. By quantifying each defense, a cost function was developed to analyze the deployment of the defenses. MATLAB is used to optimize a cost function in order to create probability distributions to determine the best possible combination of defenses to use.