What is the current state of the science of Cyber defense?

Technical Report · Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1223176· OSTI ID:1223176

Hurd, Alan J. ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

My overall sense of the cyber defense field is one of an adolescent discipline currently bogged down in a cloud of issues, the most iconic of which is the great diversity of approaches that are being aggregated to form a coherent field. Because my own expertise is complex systems and materials physics research, I have limited direct experience in cyber security sciences except as a user of secure networks and computing resources. However, in producing this report, I have found with certainty that there exists no calculus for cyber risk assessment, mitigation, and response, although some hopeful precepts toward this end are emerging.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1223176
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-15-27889
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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