By leveraging the principle of software polyculture to ensure security in a network, we proposed a vulnerability-based software diversity metric to determine how a network topology can be adapted to minimize security vulnerability while maintaining maximum network connectivity. Our proposed software diversity-based adaptation (SDA) scheme estimates a node's software diversity based on the vulnerabilities of software packages installed on other nodes on attack paths reachable to the node and employs it for edge adaptations, such as removing an edge with a neighboring node that exposes high security vulnerability because two connected nodes use the same software packages or a neighboring node may have high software vulnerability or adding an edge with another node with less or no security vulnerability because the two nodes use different software packages or have low vulnerabilities associated with them. To validate the proposed SDA scheme, we conducted extensive experiments comparing the proposed SDA scheme with counterpart baseline schemes in real networks. Our simulation experimental results proved the outperformance of our proposed SDA compared to the existing counterparts and provided insightful findings in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed SDA scheme under three real network topologies with vastly different network density.
An Effective and Resilient Backdoor Attack Framework against Deep Neural Networks and Vision Transformers
Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Wuhan Textile University（武汉纺织大学）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Wuhan University（武汉大学）
Demand-Driven Vulnerability Detection for Cloud Security Posture Management: Removing Human Rule Authoring from the Disclosure-to-Protection Critical Path
