Self-Defence of Information Systems in Cyber-Space - A Critical Overview
Abstract
Nowadays information systems (ISs) that are utilized to support military operations are much more complex than a decade ago. These new levels of complexity have brought important technical problems that need to be addressed. For example, timing-related software bugs in multi-core and multi-processor contexts have become much harder to solve in the laboratory with the current development environments. This new technological complexity has also augmented the number of undetected software vulnerabilities in systems. These become widely exposed to malicious exploitation when they are connected to unsafe networks during operations. As the traditional security framework will probably continue to present limitations, it is expected that cyber-security gaps will continue to get larger, making information systems more vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. New mechanisms and tools are needed to improve both deep software analyses in the laboratory and refined surveillance of systems during operations. This paper presents an overview of important results that were identified in six state of the art studies, and proposes new mechanisms and concepts that would complement the ones that are currently used in our development and security environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA584041
Entities
People
- Abdelouahed Gherbi
- Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj
- Mario Couture
- Michael Dagenais
- Robert Charpentier
Organizations
- DRDC Valcartier