Cyber Assured Systems Engineering (CASE)
Abstract
The Cyber Assured Systems Engineering (CASE) program aims to enable the systematic design of networked cyber physical systems to be resilient against cyberattacks. The current state-of-practice for cyber resilience utilizes penetration testing after system construction to drive post-design re-engineering. The CASE technical approach is to formulate cyber resilience as an explicitly engineered property, similar to other holistic properties such as safety, durability, and reliability now standard in systems engineering. CASE will focus on the following technical areas: techniques to derive resilience-related requirements before system design and construction; architectural design and analysis tools to design-in the derived resilience requirements while providing feedback to the human designer to allow for informed tradeoffs between resilience and other system design goals; tools to adapt existing software to support system-level resilience requirements; and inference engines, satisfiability solvers, and provers scalable to complex networked cyber physical systems. If successful, CASE technologies will enable the design of cyber physical systems that robustly execute their intended function despite the efforts of sophisticated cyber adversaries. CASE builds on technology developed in the High Assurance Cyber Military Systems program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- f17ef68595e156ab13ff72971639c0a0