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Mission-aware time-dependent cyber asset criticality and resilience

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Hasan Cam,

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CSIIRW '13: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop

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Determining mission-aware criticality, dependency, and resilience of cyber assets is required to support mission assurance in cyber defense and continuous operation of networks. This paper addresses the characterization of mission-aware asset criticality and the real-time dependencies of assets, services, tasks, and missions using Time Petri Nets and impact dependency graphs. In order to assess whether a system is resilient enough to keep supporting mission assurance in the face of cyber attacks, this paper introduces a new approach to determining whether the required resources will be available at the required time intervals. This approach leads to a better assessment of whether missions can be accomplished in a given time window over a mission-oriented network.

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CSIIRW '13: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop

January 2013

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ISBN:9781450316873

DOI:10.1145/2459976

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