Journal
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 992-1011Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12513
Keywords
Cyber deception; Cognitive models; Instance-based learning; Knowledge-tracing; Model-tracing; ACT-R; Stackelberg security game; Signaling
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- Army Research Office [W911NF-17-1-0370]
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Recent research in cybersecurity has begun to develop active defense strategies using game-theoretic optimization of the allocation of limited defenses combined with deceptive signaling. These algorithms assume rational human behavior. However, human behavior in an online game designed to simulate an insider attack scenario shows that humans, playing the role of attackers, attack far more often than predicted under perfect rationality. We describe an instance-based learning cognitive model, built in ACT-R, that accurately predicts human performance and biases in the game. To improve defenses, we propose an adaptive method of signaling that uses the cognitive model to trace an individual's experience in real time. We discuss the results and implications of this adaptive signaling method for personalized defense.
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