ADEPT: Advanced Deception Enhancing Protection Technology

The proposed ADEPT technology combines the science of cognitive psychology with centuries of magicians'practical performance experience to create a new science of deception for computer security. The ADEPT approach learns about the motives and real-world attributes of people by analyzing their cognitive processes based on their reactions to specifically designed stimuli. The resulting technology forms an additional protection layer that defenders can quickly integrate with any protection system. The ADEPT technology identifies adversarial intent and thought processes, finds real-world attributes to identify the adversary, delays the adversary, and gives defenders information that they can use to increase security. ADEPT represents a new direction in proactive software protection that learns about the adversary executing an attack and adapts its defenses accordingly.