Final Report and Recommendations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research Task Group IST-129 on Predictive Analysis of Adversarial Cyber Behavior

Abstract

This report summarizes the work and findings of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research Task Group (RTG), Information Systems Technology (IST)-129, on Predictive Analysis of Adversarial Cyber Operations. The RTG found overall there was little in the way of direct research and solutions of predicting a cyber-adversary who launches an attack against a known vulnerability with an unknown exploit. As such, the work of IST-129 contains a body of work that provides researchers and organizations a point of departure for continuing research. Of all our many findings and recommendations, the most important is that prediction of adversarial operations in cyberspace is complex, but can be decomposed. Prediction offers great potential in many areas of cyber defense. Predicting adversarial operations will be a multimethod approach. A common taxonomy both for and about the threat, along with machine-readable language, will help. Cyber defense itself needs to be protected. Modelling of closed network systems is needed and we need data sets that are representative of reality.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1131819

Entities

People

  • Bernt Akesson
  • David Aspinall
  • Dennis Mccallam
  • Heiko Guenther
  • Joseph Lopiccolo
  • Juha-pekka Nikkarila
  • Margaret Varga
  • Matthew Kellet
  • Peeter Lorents
  • Roman Faganel
  • Teodor Sommestad
  • Tracy Braun
  • Wim Mees

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics
  • George Mason University
  • Naval Postgraduate School
  • Royal Military Academy
  • Swedish Defence Research Agency
  • United States Army Research Laboratory
  • United States Naval Academy
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Oxford

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Networks
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Data Mining
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Cybersecurity.
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).

Technology Areas

  • Cyber