General Requirements of a Hybrid-Modeling Framework for Cyber Security

Understanding human dynamics of cyber security is a critical step for enhancing situation awareness of analysts. To this end, in this paper we focus on the requirements for building a comprehensive model of cyber analyst's decision making processes: we embrace an approach that leverages on cogn...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oltramari, Alessandro, Ben-Asher, Noam, Cranor, Lorrie, Bauer, Lujo, Christin, Nicolas
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognition
cognitive architecture
Computer architecture
Computer security
cyber security
Decision making
Ontologies
ontology
Semantics
situation awareness
Training
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Understanding human dynamics of cyber security is a critical step for enhancing situation awareness of analysts. To this end, in this paper we focus on the requirements for building a comprehensive model of cyber analyst's decision making processes: we embrace an approach that leverages on cognitive aspects and knowledge representation to define the core elements of such model. In particular, we make the case for investigating the interplay between ontological underpinnings of cyber security and cognitive mechanisms of decision making in cyber operations. We claim that, by integrating ontologies and cognitive architectures in a hybrid-modeling framework, it's possible to rigorously characterize and simulate the core structures that govern the decisions of defenders and attackers and mediate interactions among them in the cyberspace.
ISSN:2155-7578
2155-7586
DOI:10.1109/MILCOM.2014.28