Research Summaries

Back Cyber Warfighting System for Resilience and Response

Fiscal Year 2020
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department NPS Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Jasper, Scott E.
Sponsor NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary NPS has performed research with industry for understanding multiple aspects of resilience and response. The research lead to the creation of an automated cyber defense use case to demonstrate the technical feasibility of emerging commercial capabilities in a difficult scenario. The results of the demonstration form the basis of what can be called a Cyber Warfighting System (CWS) sponsored by Commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command / U.S. TENTH Fleet and OPNAV N2N6F1, with collaboration by the Deputy Commandant for Information, Headquarters Marine Corps. The CWS protects the endpoint, pushes unknown files to the cloud for detonation, and then reinforces the network firewall with newly generated signatures, closing zero-day vulnerabilities in minutes. The operational aspects of the CWS are the ability to 1.Sight and declare the threat and 2.Set appropriate resilience and readiness postures then respond. The intent of the CWS project is to leverage the NPS Cybersecurity Operations Center to study and analyze resilience and response against real world threats. Existing Palo Alto Network tools employed in the demo will be used across a consortium of DoD higher education institutions, namely the Naval Postgraduate School, the Naval War College and the Naval Academy. Additional DoD higher education institutions across the services will be invited to participate in the CWS project, starting with the US Air Force Academy and the Defense Language Institute. A software interface will enable the collection and display of threat data in an existing SIEM. The CWS project will study and analyze how a security operating platform sights the threat and prioritizes coordinated responses across disparate shore based networks and systems. The primary deliverables are recommendations to Commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command / U.S. TENTH Fleet, OPNAV N2N6FX1 and the Deputy Commandant for Information, Headquarters Marine Corps on how to construct, test, and evaluate the Cyber Warfighting System for ships underway or marines in the field.
Keywords Resilience Response
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