Sonification of Information Security Incidents In An Organization Using A Multistep Cooperative Game Model

This work is devoted to the elaboration of detecting means of computer attacks with a sound interface. The elaboration of auditory interfaces for interaction with a computer is relevant for situations when visual access to the display is difficult or impossible. Visual signals transmitted by information security tools characterize the behavior of computer violators. Security operators could associate computer attacks with potentially dangerous behavior from every-day life or other situations of social interaction. Various types of conflict processes that arise in real life could be expressed by the plot of musical compositions; this approach could be used to encode the interaction of a protective computer system with an attacker in a harmonious way. In presented work, as an example of the conflict situation, was used a stochastic multistep cooperative game between the units of the attacked organization, that are seeking for a response from the security center to the computer threat that has arisen. An attempt to express audibly the stability of the cooperative game, determined by the positional consistency of the method of obtaining winnings or gain is made. It was realized with the help of the musical harmony of several voices of musical instruments. The program code for calculating the positional consistency of the proposed game-theoretic model and fragments of musical compositions for voicing the state of the protected organization are also proposed. Combining the basics of musical composition with game-theoretic modeling could offer a number of new possibilities for creating an ergonomic auditory human-computer interfaces.