Removing Target Defense for Internet-Controlled Systems

Vahid Heydari

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Abstract

Internet-controlled systems provide a variety of applications, from healthcare to military and industrial applications. One of the best advantages of these systems is remotely controlling from an unlimited distance via the Internet. Another advantage is leveraging Internet Protocol (IP) with many off-the-shelf applications. Remote cyber-attacks on such systems can cause loss of life, threaten public safety/national security, or impact environmental disasters. IP address hopping, rotating IP addresses, is one of the Moving Target Defense (MTD) solutions that could prevent remote cyber-attacks during their reconnaissance step. This paper presents a novel Removing Target Defense (RTD) method that can remove any accessible IP address from the systems instead of dynamically changing those addresses. RTD is a secure and reliable network protocol for data communications between multiple devices over the Internet without having any assigned IP addresses on those devices. RTD uses multiple ideas from different fields such as steganography, covert channels, cryptography, and network protocols to eliminate the attack surface.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2022
EditorsGiancarlo Fortino, Raffaele Gravina, Antonio Guerrieri, Claudio Savaglio
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665462976
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event20th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 20th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2022 - Falerna, Italy
Duration: Sep 12 2022Sep 15 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2022

Conference

Conference20th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 20th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFalerna
Period9/12/229/15/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Control and Optimization

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