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Measuring the Impact of Tactical Denial of Sustainability

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Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops (ESORICS 2021)

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The adoption of the latest advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at the military operational edge raises promising points of disruption, emphasizing significant improvements in decision support, information sharing, and situational awareness acquisition. Among these, tactical clouds are perceived as necessary assets for achieving information and cyberspace sovereignty, serving as backbone for other cyber functionalities and their connectivity to the kinetic world. However, the attacks against the sustainability of tactical clouds, commonly referred to as Tactical Denial of Sustainability attacks (TDoS), pose one of the challenges that is mostly attracting the attention of the research community, mainly due to its asymmetric nature and cross-domain implications. Hence, the TDoS concept has been conceptually explored and analyzed through vignettes and case of study; but to date no previous work has addressed the problem of its measurement and quantification. With the aim of their understanding, this paper presents a research work that addressed the problem of identifying and analyzing mission-centric Measures of Effectives (MOEs), Measure of Performance (MOPs) and quantitative/qualitative Performance Indicators (PI) able to detect and assess TDoS situations. These measurements embrace capacity, technological, socio-cognitive and energetic aspects, discussing their possible application at offensive and defensive thinking.

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This research has received funding from the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) under the grant agreement Number EDIDP-CSAMN-SSC-2019-022-ECYSAP (European Cyber Situational Awareness Platform).

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    Pedro Ramón y Cajal Ramo, Jorge Maestre Vidal & Marco Antonio Sotelo Monge

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    Pedro Ramón y Cajal Ramo

  3. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo s/n, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Marco Antonio Sotelo Monge

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Ramón y Cajal Ramo, P., Vidal, J.M., Monge, M.A.S. (2022). Measuring the Impact of Tactical Denial of Sustainability. In: Katsikas, S., et al. Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops. ESORICS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95484-0_31

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