Vulnerability-Aware Resilient Networks: Software Diversity-based Network Adaptation

By leveraging the principle of software polyculture to ensure security in a network, we propose vulnerability-based diversity metric determine how network topology can be adapted minimize vulnerability while maintaining maximum connectivity. Our proposed estimates node using vulnerabilities packages installed on nearby nodes attack paths reachable node. diversity-based adaptation (SDA) scheme employs each for edge adaptations. These adaptations include removal edges that expose high as well potential addition between certain with low associated them. To validate SDA scheme, conduct extensive experiments comparing our approach counterpart baseline schemes real networks. simulation results demonstrate outperforms these existing counterparts. We discuss insights into findings terms effectiveness and efficiency under three topologies vastly different densities.