Call for papers: Special Issue Architecture Based Approaches to Cyber Defense Optimization (J17-2)

摘要

The growing military importance of cyber security is unquestionable. Increased use of commercial off the shelf (COTS) information technology and dependency on computerized information systems (CIS) for weapons, intelligence, communication, and logistics continues to increase vulnerability of military missions to cyber-attacks. Successful mission execution requires highly capable technologies that result in forces performing a broad range of defensive cyber operations for each step of an attacker's life cycle. While many of these defensive cyber operations rely on essentially ad-hoc techniques, there is a growing realization, within the cyber community, that a comprehensive, systematic, principle-based, modeling and simulation approach is more likely to produce long-term, lasting, reusable approaches for defensive cyber operations. Such a paradigm is predicated on the creation and validation of mechanisms of modeling the organization whose mission is subject to assessment, the mission (or missions) itself, and the cyber-vulnerable systems that support the mission. The models are then used to simulate or otherwise portray the cyber-attacks and associate defensive phenomena and system operations, including the assessment of mission impact.