Keynote Speech

STORM: Survivability Through Optimizing Resilient Mechanisms

Kevin A. Kwiat, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory

As opposed to traditional fault tolerance techniques that consider a few faults rooted in randomly naturally-occurring phenomena, STORM emphasizes malicious faults that are attacker-induced. Under these premises, faults will be modeled in the framework of game theory as the manifestation of intelligent malicious agents – that is, agents who are driven to maximize the system damage. Game theory is an appropriate mathematical tool to analyze cyber survivability even in the case of irrational attacks. This is because most cyber conflicts are zero-sum games and thus any irrational attack should be suboptimum or less damaging.

Speaker Bio:

Kevin A. Kwiat is a Principal Computer Engineer with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New York where he has worked for over 33 years. Currently he is assigned to the Cyber Assurance Branch. He received the BS in Computer Science and the BA in Mathematics from Utica College of Syracuse University, and the MS in Computer Engineering and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He holds 4 patents. In addition to his duties with the Air Force, he is an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, an adjunct instructor of Computer Engineering at Syracuse University, and a Research Associate Professor with the University at Buffalo. He is an advisor for the National Research Council. He has been by recognized by the AFRL Information Directorate with awards for best paper, excellence in technology teaming, and for outstanding individual basic research. His main research interest is dependable computer design.


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Keynote Speech STORM: Survivability Through Optimizing Resilient Mechanisms Kevin A. Kwiat, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory As opposed to traditional fault tolerance techniques that consider a few faults rooted in randomly naturally-occurring phenomena, STORM emphasizes malicious faults that are attacker-induced. Under these premises, faults will be modeled in the framework of game theory as the manifestation of intelligent malicious agents – that is, agents who are driven to maximize the system damage. Game theory is an appropriate mathematical tool to analyze cyber survivability even in the case of irrational attacks. This is because most cyber conflicts are zero-sum games and thus any irrational attack should be suboptimum or less damaging. Speaker Bio: Kevin A. Kwiat is a Principal Computer Engineer with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New York where he has worked for over 33 years. Currently he is assigned to the Cyber Assurance Branch. He received the BS in Computer Science and the BA in Mathematics from Utica College of Syracuse University, and the MS in Computer Engineering and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He holds 4 patents. In addition to his duties with the Air Force, he is an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, an adjunct instructor of Computer Engineering at Syracuse University, and a Research Associate Professor with the University at Buffalo. He is an advisor for the National Research Council. He has been by recognized by the AFRL Information Directorate with awards for best paper, excellence in technology teaming, and for outstanding individual basic research. His main research interest is dependable computer design. © Copyright 2016 1^st Florida Security Workshop - All rights reserved.