Designing Fuzzy Rule Based Expert System for Cyber Security

Abstract

The state of cyber security has begun to attract more attention and interest outside the community of computer security experts. Cyber security is not a single problem, but rather a group of highly different problems involving different sets of threats. Fuzzy Rule based system for cyber security is a system consists of a rule depository and a mechanism for accessing and running the rules. The depository is usually constructed with a collection of related rule sets. The aim of this study is to develop a fuzzy rule based technical indicator for cyber security with the use of expert system. Rule based systems employ fuzzy rule to automate complex processes. Common cyber threats assumed for cyber experts are used as linguistic variables in this paper.

Keywords

• Cyber security
• cyber terrorism
• fuzzy logic
• fuzzy rules
• Fuzzy Rule Based Cyber Expert System (FRBCES)

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