MODELING CYBER ATTACKS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON DECISION PROCESS

Cyber attacks are designed to affect human behavior by creating confusion and information overload. Although cyber attacks mainly aim to stimulate irrational behavior, there is limited work in the literature on modeling their human behavior effects. Instead most of the studies are focused on the simulation of attacks and technical solutions or counter measures to prevent, detect and recover from an attack. Taxonomies for attacks, attackers and human behavior effects of cyber attacks are provided, and the relation between cyber attacks and decision making process are modeled. Live simulation techniques for stimulating the expected behavior, specifically effects of cyber attacks on decision making are presented.