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In this paper, the Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) defense for Internet of Things (IoT) is analyzed for inaccurate APT detection, i.e., both the miss detection rate and false alarm rate of the APT detection are considered. We formulate an expert system (ES)-based APT detection game, in which an expert will double-check the suspicious behavior or potential APT attackers reported by the autonomous and inaccurate APT detection system. The Nash equilibrium of the APT detection game for IoT with ES is derived, revealing the influence of the APT detection accuracy on the utilities of the IoT system and the attacker. We propose a Q-learning based APT detection method for the IoT system with ES in the dynamic game to obtain the optimal strategy without the knowledge of the attack model. Simulation results show that the proposed APT detection scheme can efficiently use the knowledge of the expert system to improve the defender’s utility and increase the security level of the IoT device compared with the benchmark detection scheme.
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This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB0800202), Key Research Program of Chinese MIIT under grant No. JCKY2016602B001, National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. U1636120 and 61671396, CCF-Venustech Hongyan Research Initiative (2016-010), and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Grants No. Z161100002616032.
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Hu, Q., Lv, S., Shi, Z., Sun, L., Xiao, L. (2017). Defense Against Advanced Persistent Threats with Expert System for Internet of Things. In: Ma, L., Khreishah, A., Zhang, Y., Yan, M. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60033-8_29
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