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Winter 2017: Volume 5 Issue 1
Published: January 26, 2017
Cyber Science & Technology at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
U.S. Army Research Laboratory has established a Collaborative Research Alliance, or CRA, which will include an alliance of ARL, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, academia and industry researchers to explore the basic foundations of cyber science issues in the context of Army networks. ARL cyber research efforts will increasingly focus on developing the models, methods, and understanding to overcome existing barriers to the realization of effective cyber fires and maneuvers in a tactical environment. This journal issue explores those efforts.
In This Issue
Cyber Science and Technology at the Army Research Laboratory
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) received the first salvos in the battle for cybersecurity as early as three decades ago. In terms of technology history, it was an astonishingly long time ago. Before most…
The Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance: Unifying Detection, Agility, and Risk in Mission-Oriented Cyber Decision Making
Abstract: For military networks and systems, the cyber domain is ever-increasingly contested and congested space. Defenders of these systems must fight through adversary action in complex tactical and strategic environments. Just now completing its third…
Machine Learning and Network Intrusion Detection: Results from Grammatical Inference
Machine learning for network intrusion detection is an area of ongoing and active research (see references in [1] for a representative selection), however nearly all results in this area are empirical in nature, and despite…
Synergistic Architecture for Human-Machine Intrusion Detection
Abstract Modern day detection of cyber threats is a highly manual process where teams of human analysts flag suspicious events while using assistive tools such as Bro and Snort. It is the analysts’ ability to…
Risk Analysis with Execution-Based Model Generation
Analyzing risk is critical throughout the software acquisition lifecycle. System risk is assessed by conducting a penetration test, where ethical hackers portray realistic threat on real systems by exploiting vulnerabilities. These tests are very costly,…
Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) are electronic control systems that control physical machines such as motors and valves in an industrial plant. In a networked environment, the security of the physical machines depends on the security…
Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM)
The ability for commanders to know and understand an organizational attack surface, its vulnerabilities, and associated risks is a fundamental aspect of command decision-making. In the cyberspace domain, ongoing monitoring sufficient to ensure and assure…