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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 3-16
Information security in the knowledge economy
 
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Worm damage minimization in enterprise networks

Surasak Sanguanponga, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Urupoj KanlayasiriCorresponding Author Contact Information, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aDepartment of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand

Available online 30 October 2006.

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Abstract

Attackers utilize many forms of intrusion via computer networks; currently, worms are an important vector with the potential for widespread damage. None of the strategies is effective and rapid enough to mitigate worm propagation. Therefore, it is extremely important for organizations to better understand worm behaviour and adopt a strategy to minimize the damage due to worm attacks. This paper describes an approach to minimize the damage due to worm infection in enterprise networks. The approach includes: (1) analyzing the effect of parameters influencing worm infection: openness, homogeneity, and trust, (2) predicting the number of infected nodes by fuzzy decision, and (3) optimizing the trust parameter to minimize the damage by fuzzy control. Experiments using real worm attacks show that the selected parameters are strongly correlated with actual infection rates, the damage prediction produces accurate estimates, and the optimization of the selected parameter can lessen the damage from worm infection.

Keywords: Worm; Worm infection; Fuzzy decision; Fuzzy control; Network security

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Related work
3. An approach
4. Factor analysis
4.1. Openness
4.2. Homogeneity
4.3. Trust
5. Damage prediction
5.1. Fuzzification
5.2. Inference
5.3. Defuzzification
6. Parameter tuning
6.1. The effect of trust
6.2. Fuzzy feedback control
7. Experiments
7.1. Usefulness of factors
7.2. Performance of damage prediction
7.3. Performance of parameter tuning
8. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
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Information security in the knowledge economy
 
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