Realizing Scientific Methods for Cyber Security
There is little doubt among cyber security researchers about the lack of scientic rigor that underlies much of the liter-ature. The issues are manifold and are well documented. Further complicating the problem is insufficient scientic methods to address these issues. Cyber security melds man and machine: we inherit the challenges of computer science, sociology, psychology, and many other elds and create new ones where these elds interface. In this paper we detail a partial list of challenges imposed by rigorous science and survey how other sciences have tackled them, in the hope of applying a similar approach to cyber security science. This paper is by no means comprehensive: its purpose is to foster discussion in the community on how we can improve rigor in cyber security science.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 1178915
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-87207
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: LASER '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results, July 18-19, 2012, Arlington, Virginia, 19-24
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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