CSIRT Requirements for Situational Awareness

Abstract

The term situational awareness comes from the field of aviation. It describes the process of evaluating all the different environmental data around you and using it to make decisions. In the area of computer security, it refers to collecting the information around you, understanding how the information relates to and impacts your organization or constituency, and then, at the highest level, using this information to predict future activity. Situational awareness provides a context for decision making and specifically the context within which organizations prevent, detect, and respond to computer security threats and risks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 2014
Accession Number
ADA596848

Entities

People

  • M. Murray
  • Robin M. Ruefle

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Cognition
  • Computer Networks
  • Cyber Threats
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Engineering
  • European Union
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Information Security
  • International Organizations
  • Knowledge Management
  • Situational Awareness
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber