The Construction and Application of Network Attack Graph

Abstract

With the development of computer networks, the attacks with respect to them are increasing explosively. It is a very important problem for security testers to test the security situation of a specific network (i.e., to use a method to model all the possible attacks within the environment). Of all the modeling methods, the Network Attack Graph is widely used because of its Visual Intuition. Under this circumstance, this paper firstly introduces the construction methods of the Network Attack Graph, then describes its application in the network security, and lastly previews some research directions of the Network Attack Graph.