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Practical Attack Graph Generation for Network Defense
Miami Beach, Florida, USA December 11-December 15
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ACSAC.2006.3922nd Annual Computer Security Applica ...
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Kyle Ingols, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Richard Lippmann, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Keith Piwowarski, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Attack graphs are a valuable tool to network defenders, illustrating paths an attacker can use to gain access to a targeted network. Defenders can then focus their efforts on patching the vulnerabilities and configuration errors that allow the attackers the greatest amount of access. We have created a new type of attack graph, the multiple-prerequisite graph, that scales nearly linearly as the size of a typical network increases. We have built a prototype system using this graph type. The prototype uses readily available source data to automatically compute network reachability, classify vulnerabilities, build the graph, and recommend actions to improve network security. We have tested the prototype on an operational network with over 250 hosts, where it helped to discover a previously unknown configuration error. It has processed complex simulated networks with over 50,000 hosts in under four minutes.
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Kyle Ingols, Richard Lippmann, Keith Piwowarski, "Practical Attack Graph Generation for Network Defense," acsac, pp.121-130, 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'06), 2006
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