Game Theoretic Modeling of Insider Threats in an Organization

K. C. Lalropuia, Sanjeev Goyal, Borja Garcia de Soto

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Abstract

Insider threats have emerged as serious threats to organizations due to the rapid advancement and incorporation of communication technologies. Insider threats incurred significant costs to different organizations. Tackling these threats is a big challenge as insiders can misuse their privilege and their behavior is not known completely. Insiders are mainly motivated by financial gain, espionage, disgruntlement, etc. To address this issue, a great deal of research has been done in the literature on detection and mitigation of the threats. However, the existing work have not investigated properly the important problems such as how various types of people (i.e., honest and trained, honest but untrained in cybersecurity, malicious insiders) evolve in organizations, which type of people would be prevalent and which types would co-exist in the long run. Hence, we propose a novel evolutionary game model to address these problems. Based on the proposed model, we have insights into how malicious insiders and honest people would interact, survive or coexist in the organization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationApplied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops - ACNS 2024 Satellite Workshops, AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, SCI, AAC, SiMLA, LLE, and CIMSS, 2024, Proceedings
EditorsMartin Andreoni
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages188-192
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9783031614880
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
EventSatellite Workshops held in parallel with the 22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2024 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: Mar 5 2024Mar 8 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14587 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceSatellite Workshops held in parallel with the 22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityAbu Dhabi
Period3/5/243/8/24

Keywords

  • Evolutionary game
  • Insider threats
  • Security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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