TY - GEN
T1 - Agent-based model of a cyber security defense analyst team
AU - Rajivan, Prashanth
AU - Janssen, Marcus
AU - Cooke, Nancy
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Cyber security defense is often performed by a group of people called cyber defense analysts and yet team work and collaboration in cyber defense is almost non-existent. This study, using an agent-based model of the cyber defense analyst's task and interactions, explored the effects of different collaboration strategies and team sizes on performance measures such as number of intrusion alerts accurately processed by the analysts and rewards they accrue from accurately processing the alerts. This study also explored the feasibility of using agent-based modeling methodologies for studying team processes in the cyber defense context. The model revealed that specific collaboration strategies lead to better performance and that large teams are detrimental to performance.
AB - Cyber security defense is often performed by a group of people called cyber defense analysts and yet team work and collaboration in cyber defense is almost non-existent. This study, using an agent-based model of the cyber defense analyst's task and interactions, explored the effects of different collaboration strategies and team sizes on performance measures such as number of intrusion alerts accurately processed by the analysts and rewards they accrue from accurately processing the alerts. This study also explored the feasibility of using agent-based modeling methodologies for studying team processes in the cyber defense context. The model revealed that specific collaboration strategies lead to better performance and that large teams are detrimental to performance.
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U2 - 10.1177/1541931213571069
DO - 10.1177/1541931213571069
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84889876585
SN - 9780945289432
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 314
EP - 318
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, HFES 2013
T2 - 57th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting - 2013, HFES 2013
Y2 - 30 September 2013 through 4 October 2013
ER -