Ποσοτικοποίηση της ασφάλειας συστημάτων πληροφορικής με τη χρήση στοχαστικών μεθόδων
Security quantification of information systems using stochastic calculus

Doctoral Thesis
Author
Μέρμηγκας, Δημήτριος Χρήστος
Date
2012View/ Open
Subject
Πληροφοριακά συστήματα -- Μέτρα ασφαλείας ; Πληροφοριακά συστήματα -- Διοίκηση και οργάνωση ; Ανάλυση και σχεδίαση συστημάτωνAbstract
The world around us has already entered in a whole new era, regarding the use of Information Systems. The consequence of that is the increasing dependence, upon Information Systems of various corporations, which frequently base their success on their continuous (24x7) operation. Within this context, the mitigation of risks that a corporation faces, and especially those that could potentially affect the corporation’s Information Systems, has become more pressing than ever. However, in order to be able to mitigate the risks, we should first be able to measure how secure our Information System is.This thesis makes an effort to address this complicated topic, identify any possible risk repeating time pattern, as well as, to suggest a new, objective, accurate and unbiased method for calculating the security level of an Information System. To this end, it explores the usage of stochastic calculus, which by definition can handle the time factor, and produce a solid, objective and unbiased result.