Decision support model for effects estimation and proportionality assessment for targeting in cyber operations

Cyber operations are relatively a new phenomenon of the last two decades. During that period, they have increased in number, complexity, and agility, while their design and development have been processes well kept under secrecy. As a consequence, limited data(sets) regarding these incidents are available. Although various academic and...

Developing modelling and simulation standards for including the cyber domain in military training and exercises

As cyber operations are evolving to become a major military enabler, cyber activities and their resulting effects should also be represented in simulation environments. Currently much effort is being put into creating simulation environments to enable the simulation of cyber operations at the technical (network) level. At this level the focus...

Assessment Methodology for Collateral Damage and Military (Dis)Advantage in Cyber Operations

Cyber Operations stopped being utopia or Sci-Fi based scenarios: they became reality. When planning and conducting them, military actors encounter difficulties since they lack methodologies and models that support their actions and assess their effects. To address these issues by tackling the underlying scientific and practical gap, this...

Developing a Cyber Operations Computational Ontology

Cyber operations lack models, methodologies, and mechanisms to describe relevant data and knowledge. This problem is directly reflected when cyber operations are conducted and their effects assessed, and it can produce dissonance and disturbance in corresponding decision-making processes and communication between different military actors. To...