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Threshold FlipThem: when the winner does not need to take all

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Publication date12/11/2015
Host publicationDecision and Game Theory for Security : 6th International Conference, GameSec 2015, London, UK, November 4-5, 2015, Proceedings
EditorsM.H.R. Khouzani, Emmanouil Panaousis, George Theodorakopoulos
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages74-92
Number of pages19
ISBN (electronic)9783319255941
ISBN (print)9783319255934
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume9406
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Abstract

We examine a FlipIt game in which there are multiple resources which
a monolithic attacker is trying to compromise. This extension to FlipIt was considered in a paper in GameSec 2014, and was there called FlipThem. Our analysis of such a situation is focused on the situation where the attacker’s goal is to compromise a threshold of the resources. We use our game theoretic model to enable a defender to choose the correct configuration of resources (number of resources and the threshold) so as to ensure that it makes no sense for a rational adversary to try to attack the system. This selection is made on the basis of the relative costs of the attacker and the defender.