Self-defence against Armed Attacks by Non-State Actors

Cooperative Defence Against DDoS Attacks

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet have become an immediate problem. As DDoS streams do not have common characteristics, currently available intrusion detection systems (IDS) cannot detect them accurately. As a result, defend DDoS attacks based on current available IDS will dramatically affect legitimate traffic. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach to defe...

Non-State Armed Groups

Agricultural Production amidst Conflict: The Effects of Shocks, Uncertainty and Governance of Non-State Armed Actors*

This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small-farmers. First, we develop an intertemporal model of agricultural production in which the impact of conflict is transmitted through two channels: violent shocks and uncertainty brought by conflict. The model shows how conflict induces sub-optimal agricultural decisions in terms of land use and investment. We test the...

False Targets in Defence Strategies against Intentional Attacks

The paper presents a generalized model of damage caused to a complex multistate series-parallel system by intentional attacks. The model takes into account the defence strategy that presumes separation and protection of system elements and deployment of false targets. The defence strategy optimization methodology is suggested, based on the assumption that the attacker tries to maximize the expe...

Distributed Defence Against Denial of Service Attacks: A Practical View

In recent years, Denial of Service attacks have evolved into a predominant network security threat. In our previous work, we identified the necessary building blocks for an effective defence mechanism and suggested ways to integrate them. Here, we present the results of this integration on the DoS-resilience of a real networking testbed which runs the Self-Aware CPN routing protocol. The incomi...