Autonomous Cyber Response for Software-Defined Navy Networks

Abstract

The Navy and Marine Corps increasingly rely on tactical networks for mission-critical functionality. Security and resilience of these networks require autonomous and automated capabilities. Cyberattacks that take place at machine speed cannot be addressed by cyber responses that are carried out at human speed. The complexity of these network also makes human-driven configuration, administration, and optimization unfeasible. In this project, we deploy a virtualization environment and develop a toolset to enable experimenters to rapidly deploy pre-configured but highly customizable experimentation environments that integrate software-defined networks (SDN) with autonomous cyber response capabilities. This will enable agile experimentation to validate SDN and autonomous cyber response concepts in the context of future Navy and Marine Corps tactical networks, which in turn can allow us to quantify overhead and improvements insecurity, resilience, and warfighter workload.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 25, 2022
Accession Number
AD1181124

Entities

People

  • Alexander Velazquez

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Cyberattacks
  • Data Rate
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Research
  • Navy
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Simulations
  • Software Defined Networks
  • Tactical Networks
  • Topology

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development

Technology Areas

  • Cyber