The game-theoretic national interstate economic model : an integrated framework to quantify the economic impacts of cyber-terrorist behavior.

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• Creators:
  Park, Jiyoung
• Corporate Creators:
  University at Buffalo, SUNY
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Game theory
  • National security
  • Computer security
  • Economic impacts
  • Terrorism
  • Airports
  • Risk assessment
  • Behavior
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  This study suggests an integrated framework to quantify cyber attack impacts on the U.S. airport security system. A cyber attack by terrorists on the U.S. involves complex ; strategic behavior by the terrorists because they could plan to invade an airport electronic system without any U.S. border or entry point. At the same time, any defending ; entity must consider the complex processes that may cause turmoil. The possibility of simultaneous threats from cyber attacks causes another difficulty for defending ; entities to secure their airports. This highlights the need for improved, integrated inter-governmental collaboration. Collaborative networking requires close inter-governmental coordination to overcome the risk of cyber-terrorist threats. Constructing a new model for strategic cyber-terror security requires a combination of both ; competitive and cooperative game situations in order to seek specific strategies against cyber-terrorism. Also, the airport shut-down would have ripple impacts throughout ; the domestic and international economies, which raises the necessity to analyze the impacts with a spatially disaggregate economic model. To combine both competitive ; and cooperative game situations with an economic impact model, this study suggest a Game Theoretic National Interstate Economic Model (G-NIEMO) framework. GNIEMO identifies which airport may be most vulnerable in the event that an airport electronic system is subsequently shut-down. Based on the probabilistic costs of airport ; closure, the model provides the economic importance of cyber security by place of event and by type of industry. From G-NIEMO, equilibrium strategies for U.S. airport ; protection can be identified and a general guideline for the evaluation of resource allocations can be passed onto the U.S. government agencies.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  49997-38-24 ; DRTC-G-UTC02
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29702/dot_29702_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.50 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c8dd435b14c331b9a0622e881b492712ab2e33b32a42de524273486f29b7477c