Active Response

Being able to, remotely, determine the identity of a machine using clock skew. Has potential applications in hack-back to reduce the probability that the wrong machine is targeted

T. Kohno, A. Broido, and K. Claffy, Remote Physical Device Fingerprinting, Presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 8-11, 2005

HSPD-7 is a document which categorizes the threats to critical infrastructure (see PPD 63), and assigns the responsibilities of protecting those infrastructures to various federal agencies

Presidential Decision Directive 63 describes the need for critical infrastructure protection from attacks of may types (including cyber)

A Whitepaper on taking over a train station's wireless network - with implications to privacy and identity theft

Army Theater missile Defense Operations

DoD Joint Doctrine for combating weapons of mass destruction. Details the use of 'active defense' as a method of counterproliferation of WMD

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. Defines 'active defense'

A critical and important book in the evolution of military strategy and doctrine. Many point to this work as the first formalization of an 'active defense'

V. D. Sokolovskii, Soviet Military Strategy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

ABSTRACT: In this paper we present a tool designed to intercept attacks at the host where they are launched so as to block them before they reach their targets. The tool works both for attacks targeted on the local host and on hosts connected to the network

D. Bruschi and E. Rosti, "AngeL: A Tool To Disarm Computer Systems," presented at 2001 Workshop on New Security Paradigms, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, 2001.

Response article to Symbiot Inc.'s new IDS that can respond