A major component of the SENDS Pilot Project is a modeling and
simulation task that helps us better understand how people and
information technology interact and the interdependencies that
arise with the convergence of these two sources of
vulnerability. We call the product output of this task SENDSim.
In brief, SENDSim is being designed to help the cybersecurity
expert face cyberspace security challenges by providing a
platform for understanding threats, evaluating solutions, and
communicating the benefits of a principled security plan to non-
technical decision makers. Users can specify network designs,
assumptions, and policy parameters. SENDSim then creates a
simulated network, a simulated workforce using that network, and
a simulated malware threat. The illustration of an early SENDSim
screenshot below helps to visualize the components and
interactions of SENDSim agent-actors. Incorporating modeling
techniques from epidemiology and behavioral economics, SENDSim
captures both the behaviors of the malware a