Review of Situational Awareness for Computer Network Defense

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Onwubiko ◽  
Thomas Owens
Keyword(s):  
Computer Security ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Network Defense ◽  
Computer Network Defense

The importance of situational awareness to air traffic control, and hence the safety and security of aircraft, is evident, demonstrable, and has been hugely significant. The main purpose of this book is to convey an understanding of the impact of situational awareness on the design of the next generation computer systems, network architectures, and platform infrastructures. The book achieves its purpose by presenting principles, methods, and applications of situational awareness for computer network defense; in doing so, it makes clear the benefits situational awareness can provide for information security, computer security and computer network defense. This book contributes to cross-multidisciplinary discussion among researchers, academia, and practitioners who are engaged objectively in sharing, contributing, and showcasing how situational awareness can be adapted to computer systems, network infrastructure designs, and architecture patterns. The goal of this chapter is to explain situational awareness for computer network defense from the point of view of its most basic foundations as a spring board to discuss how situational awareness can be relevant to computer network defense, whose operations and environment are similar to air traffic control where the application of situational awareness has been hugely successful.

Capacity Management of Air Traffic Control Computer Systems

Computer ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Bleistein ◽  
Goettge ◽  
Petroski ◽  
Wiseman
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Capacity Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Control Computer

Navigation of the S.S.T.

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-187
Author(s):  
J. Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Flight Path ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Optimum Trajectory ◽  
Flight System ◽  
Actual Position

As a general rule the navigational function is aimed at determining the position of the aircraft in order to resolve three types of problem:(1) To subject the aircraft's flight path to an optimum trajectory calculated before departure or progressively adapted in course of flight to the circumstances encountered.(2) To choose at each point of the selected flight path the flight system best adapted to the safety and economy of the flight.(3) Taking into account the presence of other aircraft in the airspace, to know and make known the actual position and the information allowing provision to be made for future positions, so as to permit effective air traffic control.Departures of the actual from the chosen flight path penalize the flight by a lowering of economy (in flying time or fuel consumption). It does not seem, however, that the problems raised from this point of view by S.S.T. are by nature or in difficulty any different from those which affect conventional aircraft. Taking into account the present-day precision of navigational aids there is every reason to believe that departures of the actual flight path from the optimum flight path will introduce a penalization which it is possible to ignore when compared with the penalization due to the inaccuracy of the knowledge of the elements (winds, temperatures, pressures) which have, in fact, served to determine this optimum flight path.

The Automation of Air Traffic Control

1975 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Jacques Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Digital Computers

Experience gained in the automation of air traffic control is of interest from more than one point of view, and not only because of the range and diversity of new and delicate problems to which this application of automation has given rise, and for which it is necessary to find simultaneous solutions. It has been necessary to design and develop new methods for the acquisition, processing and display of information and to link them with digital computers, for which a complex and voluminous ‘real-time’ software has had to be compiled and brought up to date without interrupting the procedure. But it is when it comes to visualizing the total pattern that the most difficult problems arise because the major decisions determining the success or failure of the operation have had to be taken without the possibility of acquiring any preliminary experience.Man and the computer have to work together in real time as harmoniously as possible to obtain the best results from the modern data processing systems that it was proposed to employ; it was therefore essential to consider very deeply the complementary roles which each was intended to play.To describe this research in detail or the solutions arrived at would not be of great interest to those other than specialists.

Information Security for Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense

2012 ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
Uri Blumenthal ◽  
Joshua Haines ◽  
William Streilein ◽  
Gerald O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Network Defense ◽  
Physical Time ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Military Strength ◽  
Computer Network Defense

Situational awareness – the perception of “what is going on” – is crucial in every field of human endeavor, especially so in the cyber world where most of the protections afforded by physical time and distance are taken away. Since ancient times, military science emphasized the importance of preserving your awareness of the battlefield and at the same time preventing your adversary from learning the true situation for as long as possible. Today cyber is officially recognized as a contested military domain like air, land, and sea. Therefore situational awareness in computer networks will be under attacks of military strength and will require military-grade protection. This chapter describes the emerging threats for computer SA, and the potential avenues of defense against them.

An Alternative Framework for Research on Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense

2012 ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric McMillan ◽  
Michael Tyworth
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Network Defense ◽  
Human In The Loop ◽  
Research Account ◽  
Computer Network Defense ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
New Framework

In this chapter the authors present a new framework for the study of situation awareness in computer network defense (cyber-SA). While immensely valuable, the research to date on cyber-SA has overemphasized an algorithmic level of analysis to the exclusion of the human actor. Since situation awareness, and therefore cyber-SA, is a human cognitive process and state, it is essential that future cyber-SA research account for the human-in-the-loop. To that end, the framework in this chapter presents a basis for examining cyber-SA at the cognitive, system, work, and enterprise levels of analysis. In describing the framework, the authors present examples of research that are emblematic of each type of analysis.

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