title: The framework for simulation of bioinspired security mechanisms against network infrastructure attacks.
abstract: The paper outlines a bioinspired approach named "network nervous system" and methods of simulation of infrastructure attacks and protection mechanisms based on this approach. The protection mechanisms based on this approach consist of distributed procedures of information collection and processing, which coordinate the activities of the main devices of a computer network, identify attacks, and determine necessary countermeasures. Attacks and protection mechanisms are specified as structural models using a set-theoretic approach. An environment for simulation of protection mechanisms based on the biological metaphor is considered; the experiments demonstrating the effectiveness of the protection mechanisms are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", Professora Popova Street 5, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
authors.forename: Andrey
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9350-7307
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shorov
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Computer Security Problems, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, 14th Line 39, Saint-Petersburg, Russia ; St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Kronverkskiy Prospekt 49, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kotenko
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D016494:Computer Security / Q000592:standards*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000592:standards; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014584:User-Computer Interface