Game theoretic risk analysis of security threats
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Game theoretic risk analysis of security threats
zbMATH Open document ID: 1173.91012
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-87767-9
publication date: 2008-10-30T00:00:00Z
review text: Risk management is quite an important problem for every living creature. Hence studying risk management using all possible approaches is a worthy problem. This book combines game and reliability theories to study attacker-defender models. Both are considered to be intelligent and adaptive. Chapter 1 (Bier and Azaiez) is an introduction. Chapter 2 (by Guikema) is an excellent review of combining reliability and game theories to model attack-defence situations. The adequacy of game theory is critically reviewed. Also non-game theoretic approaches are presented. (The name of D. Arce is missing in the reference of Sandler and Arce 2003). Chapter 3 (by Levitin) considers an attack-defence case when the attacker attempts to maximize the expected damage to a complex multi-state series-parallel system. The defender on the other hand uses separation, protection and false targets to reduce the attack risk. Chapter 4 (by Hausken et al.) considers defence against both natural disasters and terrorism. A variety of simultaneous and sequential decision situations is considered. Chapter 5 (by Azaiez) considers the important case of incomplete information in modeling attacker-defender strategies. The attacker has only partial information about the survivability of the targeted system. Chapter 6 (by Gaver et al.) considers the case of detecting and neutralizing a terrorist in a population. There are two sources of errors, namely false identification of a nonhostile individual and failure to identify a hostile one. Chapter 7 (by Pate-Cornell et al.) uses game theory and probabilistic risk analysis to study the links between the actions of terrorists and governments. Chapter 8 (by Cox) surveys recent developments in designing resilient telecommunication networks. Such networks should be designed to provide enough flexibility, redundancy and rapid recovery against deliberate attacks. The focus is on network topology and traffic routing to achieve resilience. Chapter 9 (by Kanturska et a…
reviewed by: E. Ahmed
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A80
zbMATH DE Number: 5359006
zbMATH Keywords: game theory
zbMATH Keywords: reliability theory
zbMATH Keywords: risk analysis
zbMATH Keywords: terrorism
zbMATH Keywords: network
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87767-9
OpenAlex ID: W435251533
published in: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5359006