Multi-stage Game Based Dynamic Deployment Mechanism of Virtualized Honeypots

Abstract

As an important deception defense method,honeypot is of great significance to enhance the network active defense capability.However,most of the existing honeypots adopt the static deployment method,which is difficult to deal with the strategic attacks effectively.Therefore,by combining the complete information static game with Markov decision process,we propose a multi-stage stochastic game based dynamic deployment mechanism HoneyVDep.By taking the resource constrained maximum comprehensive gain of the defensive side as the goal,HoneyVDep establishes a multi-stage random game based honeypot deployment optimization model.Besides,we also implement a Q_Learning based solution algorithm,which can deal with the attacker's strategic detection attack behavior quickly.Finally,based on software defined network and virtualization containers,we implement an extensible prototype system.The experimental results show that HoneyVDep can effectively generate honeypot deployment strategy according to the characteristics of the attacker's attack behavior,improve the trapping rate of the attackers,and reduce the deployment cost.

Keywords

• virtual honeypot|multi stage game|deep reinforcement learning|software defined network|container