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Damage assessment plays a very important role in securing enterprise networks and systems. Gaining good awareness about the effects and impact of cyber attack actions would enable security officers to make the right cyber defense decisions and take the right cyber defense actions. A good number of damage assessment techniques have been proposed in the literature, but they typically focus on a single abstraction level (of the software system in concern). As a result, existing damage assessment techniques and tools are still very limited in satisfying the needs of comprehensive damage assessment which should not result in any “blind spots”.
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This work was supported by NSF CNS-0716479, AFOSR MURI: Autonomic Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward Correction, AFRL award FA8750-08-C-0137, and ARO MURI: Computer-aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness.
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Liu, P. et al. (2010). Cross-Layer Damage Assessment for Cyber Situational Awareness. In: Jajodia, S., Liu, P., Swarup, V., Wang, C. (eds) Cyber Situational Awareness. Advances in Information Security, vol 46. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0140-8_8
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