DMAT : A New Network and Computer Attack Classification
DMAT : A New Network and Computer Attack Classification is a scholarly work, published in 2013 in ''Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review''. The main subjects of the publication include taxonomy, Android, intrusion detection system, attack patterns, Internet, computer security, attack model, information security, network security, computer science, and cyberattack. With the rapid development of computer network and information technology, the Internet has been suffering from a variety of security attacks over the past few years.Attacks have become both numerous and complex, and the defender can not understand.In order to understand and defend against cyber attacks, it is necessary to understand the kind of attack.In this paper, authors study computer and network attacks, and introduce a classification of them and propose a cyber attack classification called DMAT (Defense-oriented Multidimensional Attack Taxonomy).We use nine categories to describe the characteristic of the attack, which are attack target, attack impact, attack purpose, attack cost, attack exploiting, attack source, attack automation, attack loss and defense.The ninth category in the DMAT, classification by defense, is used to provide the defender with instructions of how to defense an attack.Compared to the existing taxonomies, the authors' taxonomy efficiently classifies complex attacks and guide the defender to defense the possible attack.