Network Security Metrics

• Main Authors: Wang, Lingyu (Author), Jajodia, Sushil (Author), Singhal, Anoop (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computer security.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Encryption.

This book examines different aspects of network security metrics and their application to enterprise networks. One of the most pertinent issues in securing mission-critical computing networks is the lack of effective security metrics which this book discusses in detail. Since “you cannot improve wha...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Measuring the Overall Network Security by Combining CVSS Scores Based on Attack Graphs and Bayesian Networks
• 2 Refining CVSS-based network security metrics by examining the base scores
• 3 Security Risk Analysis of Enterprise Networks Using Probabilistic Attack Graphs
• 4 k-Zero day safety: Evaluating the resilience of networks against unknown attacks
• 5 Using Bayesian Networks to Fuse Intrusion Evidences and Detect Zero-day Attack Paths
• 6 Evaluating the network diversity of networks against zero-day attacks
• 7 Metrics suite for network attack graph analytics
• 8 A Novel Metric for Measuring Operational Effectiveness of a Cybersecurity Operations Center.