Dynamic Games for Network Security

The goal of this SpringerBrief is to collect and systematically present thestate-of-the-art in this research field and the underlying game-theoreticand learning tools to the broader audience with general network securityand engineering backgrounds. Particularly, the exposition of this book beginswith a brief introduction of relevant background knowledge in Chapter 1,followed by a review of existing applications of SG in addressing variousdynamic network security problems in Chapter 2. A detailed treatment of dynamic security gameswith information asymmetry is given in Chapters 3-5. Specifically, dynamicsecurity games with extra information that concerns security competitions,where the defender has an informational advantage over the adversary arediscussed in Chapter 3. The complementary scenarios where the defenderlacks information about the adversary is examined in Chapter 4 throughthe lens of incomplete information SG. Chapter 5 is devoted to theexploration of how to proactively create information asymmetry for thedefender's benefit. The primary audience for this brief includesnetwork engineers interested in security decision-making in dynamic network security problems.Researchers interested in the state-of-the-art research on stochastic gametheory and its applications in network security will be interested in this SpringerBrief as well. Also graduate andundergraduate students interested in obtaining comprehensiveinformation on stochastic game theory and applying it to address relevant research problems can use this SpringerBrief as a study guide.Lastly, concluding remarks and our perspective forfuture works are presented in Chapter 6.