Characterizing cyber-resiliency

Author

Dwivedi, Anurag ; Tebben, Daniel ; Harshavardhana, P.

Author_Institution

Appl. Phys. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 31 2010-Nov. 3 2010

Firstpage

1304

Lastpage

1309

Abstract

The restoration requirements for backbone network design have historically been driven by the need to address link failures due, e.g., to accidental fiber cuts. Only in the last 5-7 years the requirements of recovery from cyber attacks induced network failures have surfaced. Both deployed and greenfield networks can benefit from systematic cyber-vulnerability and resiliency characterization which can provide useful insights into the new design paradigm addressing cyber threats. In this paper a technique for characterizing networks for cyber resiliency is suggested based on the network reachability degradation due to node and link failures.

Keywords

radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication security; telecommunication traffic; cyber attack; cyber threat; cyber-resiliency; link failure; network failure; network reachability degradation; node failure; systematic cyber-vulnerability; Degradation; Equations; Knowledge engineering; Monte Carlo methods; Network topology; Robustness; Topology; characterization; cyber; measurement; network; resiliency; topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, 2010 - MILCOM 2010

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

2155-7578

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8178-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2010.5680128

Filename

5680128