The New Progress of Motive Target Defense Technology

Tan Tiantian; Wang Baosheng; Wang XiaoFeng; Cai Guilin; Luo Yuebin; Xiang Zheng

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The New Progress of Motive Target Defense Technology

Tan Tiantian, Wang Baosheng, Wang XiaoFeng, Cai Guilin, Luo Yuebin, Xiang Zheng

Published in International Journal on Data Science and Technology (Volume 4, Issue 3)

Received: 19 May 2018 Accepted: 1 July 2018 Published: 16 August 2018

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The concept of moving target defense (MTD) is an excellent solution proposed in USA to make the defender become dominant player while the defender is the disadvantage one in the game of defender and attacker. Focus on summarized the attack surface characteristic and functional connotation of moving target defense, according to the hierarchy in the execution stack, this paper classified and analyzed current moving target defense technologies into four categories, such as dynamic communication network, dynamic communication run-time environment, dynamic communication data and dynamic communication application, described the theory of every mechanism in each category, summarized the advantages and disadvantages of each mechanism. On the basis of the study of current mechanisms of moving target defense technologies, this paper designed a moving target defense system based on terminal information hopping and analyzed its anti-attack performance. The experiment result proven that system can effectively increase the time consumption and complexity of successful attack, and decrease successful attack rate by continually shifting the attack surface, our design greatly improved the strength of inactive defense. This study can provide the theoretical guidance for the design and implementation of muti-mechanisms moving target defense systems.

Published in	International Journal on Data Science and Technology (Volume 4, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijdst.20180403.12
Page(s)	84-92
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Moving Target Defense (MTD), Active Defense, Communication Network Security, Shifting Mechanism, Survey

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Tan Tiantian, Wang Baosheng, Wang XiaoFeng, Cai Guilin, Luo Yuebin, et al. (2018). The New Progress of Motive Target Defense Technology. International Journal on Data Science and Technology, 4(3), 84-92. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijdst.20180403.12

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Tan Tiantian, Wang Baosheng, Wang XiaoFeng, Cai Guilin, Luo Yuebin, et al. The New Progress of Motive Target Defense Technology. Int J Data Sci Technol. 2018;4(3):84-92. doi: 10.11648/j.ijdst.20180403.12

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Tan Tiantian

Department of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Wang Baosheng

Department of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Wang XiaoFeng

Department of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Cai Guilin

Faculty of Crap, Crap 95942, Wuhan, China
Luo Yuebin

Department of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Xiang Zheng

Department of Network, Hunan Institute of Information Technology, Changsha, China

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