A Comprehensive Assessment Method of Asset Importance for Key Asset Protection

Abstract

In a given system network, an important prerequisite for security risk control is how to accurately calculate the impact of different host assets in the topology on the spread of attack risk. In this regard, we propose a comprehensive asset importance assessment model for critical asset protection. First, the importance of local static assets in the topology was evaluated using three methods: degree centrality, mediation centrality, and closeness centrality. At the same time, PageRank was used to assess the importance of local dynamic assets for asset level changes. By combining the above two methods, and using K-CORE to evaluate the core position of the host in the network topology as the global weight indicator of the importance of assets. The comprehensive evaluation results of the importance of topology-oriented assets was finally obtained, and the validity of the model was verified through the experiment of the simulation ER random network.