Approaches to Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Report of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Workshop IST-153

Abstract

This report summarizes the discussions and findings of the 2017 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Workshop, IST-153, on Cyber Resilience, held in Munich, Germany, on 2325 October 2017, at the University of Bundeswehr. Despite continual progress in managing risks in the cyber domain, anticipation and prevention of all possible attacks and malfunctions are not feasible for the current or future systems comprising the cyber infrastructure. Therefore, interest in cyber resilience (as opposed to merely risk-based approaches) is increasing rapidly, in literature and in practice. Unlike concepts of risk or robustness which are often and incorrectly conflated with resilience resiliency refers to the systems ability to recover or regenerate its performance to a sufficient level after an unexpected impact produces a degradation of its performance. The exact relation among resilience, risk, and robustness has not been well articulated technically. The presentations and discussions at the workshop yielded this report. It focuses on the following topics that the participants of the workshop saw as particularly important: 1) fundamental properties of cyber resilience, 2) approaches to measuring and modeling cyber resilience, 3) mission modeling for cyber resilience, 4) systems engineering for cyber resilience, and 5) dynamic defense as a path toward cyber resilience.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1050894

Entities

People

  • Alexander S. Kott
  • Alfred Mller
  • Amanda Joyce
  • Benjamin Blakely
  • Carmen Mas-machuca
  • Dennis Kergl
  • Diane Henshel
  • Donald W. French
  • Donald Woodard
  • Dudman
  • Edward Yakabovicz
  • Gregory Wehner
  • Hugh Harney
  • Igor Linkov
  • James Rowell
  • Janos Sztipanovits
  • Kerry Krutilla
  • Luis Munoz-gonzalez
  • Nandi Leslie
  • Nathaniel Evans
  • Perri Nejib
  • Pierre Trepagnier
  • Sowdagar Badesha
  • Steven Noel
  • Tim Dudman

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Internet Of Things
  • Military Research
  • Nato
  • Network Science
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber