Critical Infrastructure Cyberspace Analysis Tool (CICAT): Capability Description

Abstract

Critical Infrastructure Cyberspace Analysis Tool (CICAT) is a modeling and simulation tool for evaluating how an adversary might conduct a cyber attack on a system. MITRE developed CICAT to automate production of cyber attack scenarios in conjunction with participation in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Coordinated Research Project (CRP) J02008: "Enhancing Computer Security Incident Analysis at Nuclear Facilities" [1], which is an international research project to improve capabilities to prevent, detect and respond to cyber security incidents at nuclear facilities. The CICAT tool can be easily applied to other critical infrastructures or cyber physical systems through development of an infrastructure model to represent the target environment. Potential applications of CICAT include cyber threat modeling for acquisition programs, as well as defensive cyber operations (DCO) incident analysis, planning, and decision support in a production environment. This paper provides a capability description of the CICAT tool.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1108090

Entities

People

  • Jackson Wynn
  • Joseph Whitmore
  • Samuel Mccracken
  • William Coconato

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Security Techniques
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cyber Threats
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Fission
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Information Exchange
  • Insider Threats
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Malware
  • Network Protocols
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Fuels
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Operating Systems
  • Risk Analysis
  • Scada
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace