Viktor Engström
Postdoc
Researcher
About me
I am currently a post doc at the Division of Network and Systems Engineering (NSE) under the Centre for Cyber Defense and Information Security (CDIS).
During my PhD, I primarily designed and developed the foundations of the Dynamic Meta Attack Language(DynaMAL), which germinated from the original Meta Attack Language (MAL). The project was funded by CDIS under the name Attack Simulations for Defense. Before KTH, I finished my MSc in information security at Stockholm University in the spring of 2019.
My dissertation can be found here:
DynaMAL
DynaMAL simulations lets adversaries add and remove objects during the simulations as events unfold. This makes DynaMAL flexible enough to replicate how malware could wipe systems or how resources in the cloud might move around, for instance. When finished, DynaMAL will come with a set of tools, including:
- Dync - A lightweight compiler
- Dynm - A CLI modeler
- Dynp - A simulation platform
The current DynaMAL publications are:
- A Metalanguage for Dynamic Attack Graphs and Lazy Generation
- (preprint) Modeling and Simulating Cyberattacks with the Dynamic Meta Attack Language
My general computer science interests are a mixed bag but an excerpt is: working with graphs, network science, general modeling and simulation, agent-based simulation, designing languages, design science, ethical hacking, complexity science, and dabbling in functional programming.
Additional projects
Previously worked on:
- A systematic literature review about cyber attack simulations.
- Automated security assessments of cloud environments hosted on Amazon Web Servicesusing the Meta Attack Language in collaboration with foreseeti.
Miscellaneous
PhD Supervisors
- Mathias Ekstedt(2019 - 2026)
- Pontus Johnson(2022 - present)
- Robert Lagerström(2019 - 2022)
- Paused his research to join Google when they acquired the spin-off company Foreseeti.
Other: