Towards a Multi-Agent Simulation of Cyber-attackers and Cyber-defenders Battles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04849v1
• Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:17:17 GMT
• Title: Towards a Multi-Agent Simulation of Cyber-attackers and Cyber-defenders Battles
• Authors: Julien Soulé, Jean-Paul Jamont, Michel Occello, Paul Théron, Louis-Marie Traonouez,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a Markovian modeling and implementation through a simulator of fighting cyber-attacker agents and cyber-defender agents deployed on host network nodes.<n>It aims to provide an experimental framework to implement realistically based coordinated cyber-attack scenarios.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: As cyber-attacks show to be more and more complex and coordinated, cyber-defenders strategy through multi-agent approaches could be key to tackle against cyber-attacks as close as entry points in a networked system. This paper presents a Markovian modeling and implementation through a simulator of fighting cyber-attacker agents and cyber-defender agents deployed on host network nodes. It aims to provide an experimental framework to implement realistically based coordinated cyber-attack scenarios while assessing cyber-defenders dynamic organizations. We abstracted network nodes by sets of properties including agents' ones. Actions applied by agents model how the network reacts depending in a given state and what properties are to change. Collective choice of the actions brings the whole environment closer or farther from respective cyber-attackers and cyber-defenders goals. Using the simulator, we implemented a realistically inspired scenario with several behavior implementation approaches for cyber-defenders and cyber-attackers.

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