Preventive strike vs. false targets and protection in defense strategy

Preventive strike vs. false targets and protection in defense strategy

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Article ID: iaor20114967
Volume: 96
Issue: 8
Start Page Number: 912
End Page Number: 924
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Journal: Reliability Engineering and System Safety
Authors: ,
Keywords: allocation: resources, optimization
Abstract:

A defender allocates its resource between defending an object passively and striking preventively against an attacker seeking to destroy the object. With no preventive strike the defender distributes its entire resource between deploying false targets, which the attacker cannot distinguish from the genuine object, and protecting the object. If the defender strikes preventively, the attacker's vulnerability depends on its protection and on the defender's resource allocated to the strike. If the attacker survives, the object's vulnerability depends on the attacker's revenge attack resource allocated to the attacked object. The optimal defense resource distribution between striking preventively, deploying the false targets and protecting the object is analyzed. Two cases of the attacker strategy are considered: when the attacker attacks all of the targets and when it chooses a number of targets to attack. An optimization model is presented for making a decision about the efficiency of the preventive strike based on the estimated attack probability, dependent on a variety of model parameters.

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