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News release prepared by: Greg Tammen, 785-532-4486, gtammen@k-state.edu
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Now you see me, now you don't: Cybersecurity experts begin investigation on self-adapting computer 1xbet sports betting that defends itself against hackers
MANHATTAN -- In the online struggle for 1xbet sports betting security, Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are adding an ally to the security force: the computer 1xbet sports betting itself.
Scott DeLoach, professor of computing and information sciences, and Xinming "Simon" Ou, associate professor of computing and information sciences, are researching the feasibility of building a computer 1xbet sports betting that could protect itself against online attackers by automatically changing its setup and configuration.
DeLoach and Ou were recently awarded a five-year grant of more than million from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to fund the study "Understanding and quantifying the impact of moving target defenses on computer networks." The study, which began in April, will be the first to document whether this type of adaptive 1xbet sports betting , called moving-target defense, can be effective. If it can work, researchers will determine if the benefits of creating a moving-target defense system outweigh the overhead and resources needed to build it.
Helping 1xbet sports betting and DeLoach in their investigation and research are Kansas State University students Rui Zhuang and Su Zhang, both doctoral candidates in computing and information sciences from China, and Alexandru Bardas, doctoral student in computing and information sciences from Romania.
As the study progresses the 1xbet sports betting scientists will develop a set of analytical models to determine the effectiveness of a moving-target defense system. They will also create a proof-of-concept system as a way to experiment with the idea in a concrete setting.
"It's important to investigate any scientific evidence that shows that this approach does work so it can be fully researched and developed," DeLoach said. He started collaborating with Ou to apply intelligent adaptive techniques to 1xbet sports betting several years ago after a conversation at a university open house.
The term moving-target defense -- a subarea of adaptive security in the cybersecurity field -- was first coined around 2008, although similar concepts have been proposed and studied since the early 2000s. The idea behind moving-target defense in the context of computer networks is to create a computer 1xbet sports betting that is no longer static in its configuration. Instead, as a way to thwart cyber attackers, the 1xbet sports betting automatically and periodically randomizes its configuration through various methods -- such as changing the addresses of software applications on the 1xbet sports betting ; switching between instances of the applications; and changing the location of critical system data.
Ou and DeLoach said the key is to make the 1xbet sports betting appear to an attacker that it is changing chaotically while to an authorized user the system operates normally.
"If you have a Web server, pretty much anybody in the world can figure out where you are and what software you're running," DeLoach said. "If they know that, they can figure out what vulnerabilities you have. In a typical scenario, attackers scan your system and find out everything they can about your server configuration and what 1xbet sports betting holes it has. Then they select the best time for them to attack and exploit those 1xbet sports betting holes in order to do the most damage. This could change that."
Creating a computer 1xbet sports betting that could automatically detect and defend itself against cyber attacks would substantially increase the security of online data for universities, government departments, corporations and businesses -- all of which have been the targets of large-scale cyber attacks.
In February 2011 it was discovered that the Nasdaq Stock Market's computer 1xbet sports betting had been infiltrated by hackers. Although federal investigators concluded that it was unlikely the hackers stole any information, the 1xbet sports betting 's security had been left vulnerable for more than a year while the hackers visited it numerous times.
According to Ou, creating a moving-target defense system would shift the power imbalance that currently resides with hackers -- who need only find a single security hole to exploit -- back to the 1xbet sports betting administrators -- who would have a system that frequently removes whatever security privileges attackers may gain with a new clean slate.
"This is a game-changing idea in 1xbet sports betting ," Ou said. "People feel that we are currently losing against online attackers. In order to fundamentally change the 1xbet sports betting landscape and reduce that high risk we need some big, fundamental changes to the way computers and networks are constructed and organized."