Jack Voltaic Cyber Sandtable
Abstract
The Jack Voltaicª (JV) exercises and experiments are focused on a framework to prepare, prevent, and respond to multi-sector cyberattacks on major cities. This initiative involves players from multiple sectors, including first responders, emergency management, transportation, telecommunications, power, water, finance and healthcare. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) wishes to apply for grant funding to support long-term objectives for the JV initiative. In particular, APL wishes to address the following objective from the JV Broad Area Announcement (BAA): "Develop a set of guidelines to determine what data is relevant across multiple city IT infrastructures, a labeling nomenclature, and standardization procedure for technical data collected on Jack Voltaic virtual environments." In this proposal, APL will present a breakdown of key tasks to achieve the objective, a notional level of effort for achieving the tasks, and a notional schedule for the completion of the work. This methodology is informed by APLÕs support of the State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) community in previous efforts. To achieve the stated objective, APL proposes conducting scoped analysis of city cybersecurity capabilities, identification of relevant and actionable information for city cybersecurity operations, identification of actionable labeling nomenclature, and Identification of standardization procedures for technical data collected on JV virtual environments. This phase will maximize remote data collection techniques to inform our cyber testbed development approach. Once the aforementioned planning, analysis, and scenario development is complete, we will conduct controlled cyber experimentation to automate and orchestrate techniques reported in our overall guidelines brief.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 22, 2020
- Source ID
- W911NF2010341
Entities
People
- Michael Ayenson
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Johns Hopkins University
- United States Army