Survey on application of attack graph technology

Abstract

Attack graph technology was a measure to predict the pattern and process used by attacker to compromise the target network,so as to guide defender to take defensive measures and improve network security.The basic component,types of attack graphs and respective advantages and disadvantages of each type were reviewed.The application status of attack graph technology in risk assessment and network hardening,intrusion detection and alarm correlation,and other aspects were introduced.Several kinds of existing attack graph generation and analysis tools were also presented.At last a survey of some challenges and research trends in future research work was provided.

Keywords

• attack graph;vulnerability;network hardening;alert correlation