Cyber situational awareness and differential hardening

Anurag Dwivedi; Dan Tebben

doi:10.1117/12.915642

8 May 2012 Cyber situational awareness and differential hardening

Anurag Dwivedi, Dan Tebben

Proceedings Volume 8408, Cyber Sensing 2012; 840803 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.915642
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

The advent of cyber threats has created a need for a new network planning, design, architecture, operations, control, situational awareness, management, and maintenance paradigms. Primary considerations include the ability to assess cyber attack resiliency of the network, and rapidly detect, isolate, and operate during deliberate simultaneous attacks against the network nodes and links. Legacy network planning relied on automatic protection of a network in the event of a single fault or a very few simultaneous faults in mesh networks, but in the future it must be augmented to include improved network resiliency and vulnerability awareness to cyber attacks. Ability to design a resilient network requires the development of methods to define, and quantify the network resiliency to attacks, and to be able to develop new optimization strategies for maintaining operations in the midst of these newly emerging cyber threats. Ways to quantify resiliency, and its use in visualizing cyber vulnerability awareness and in identifying node or link criticality, are presented in the current work, as well as a methodology of differential network hardening based on the criticality profile of cyber network components.

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Anurag Dwivedi and Dan Tebben "Cyber situational awareness and differential hardening", Proc. SPIE 8408, Cyber Sensing 2012, 840803 (8 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.915642

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