iShare: Blockchain-Based Privacy-Aware Multi-Agent Information Sharing Games for Cybersecurity
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In this paper, we design, develop, and evaluate a novel information sharing (iShare) framework for cybersecurity with the goal of protecting confidential information and networked infrastructures from future cyber-attacks. The proposed iShare framework leverages the Blockchain concept used in Bitcoin systems where multiple organizations/agencies participate for information sharing (without violating their privacy) to secure and monitor their cyberspace. Note that the Bitcoin for financial transactions has already demonstrated that there is a trusted, auditable sharing with peer-to-peer communications accompanied by a public ledger. The main aim of the Blockchain-based iShare framework is to constantly collect high-resolution, cyber-attack information across organizational boundaries of which the organizations have no specific knowledge or control over any other organizations' data or damage caused by cyber-attacks. In the proposed iShare framework, the decentralized nature of the Blockchain and digitally signed transactions ensure that an adversary cannot pose as a legitimate organization/user or cannot control/hamper the system because of the digital-signatures and cannot learn anything from the public ledger that has just hashed pointers. Moreover, we analyze the security attacks by outsiders (not participating in the iShare) using a Stackelberg game.
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This is essential in critical infrastructures and defense, whose data have to be stored through trusted service providers, especially in countries where data privacy and security are not guaranteed.
“This is essential in the case of critical infrastructures [34], [35] and defense [36], whose data, due to legal and privacy concerns (e.g., certain defense data are considered strategic and therefore classified), have to be stored through trusted service providers, especially in countries where data privacy and security are not guaranteed [37].”
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- Authors
- Rawat, D. B., Njilla, L., Kwiat, K., & Kamhoua, C.
- Affiliations
- Howard University (US)
- United States Air Force Research Laboratory (US)
- United States Department of the Army (US)
- Venue
- 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2018-03
- Pages
- 425-431
- ISSN
- 2325-2626 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2809368618
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 4.71
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- 2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- Keywords
- blockchain, information sharing, privacy preservation, multi-agent systems, cybersecurity, digital signatures, public ledger, decentralized systems, Stackelberg game, security attacks, inter-organizational collaboration
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