Assessing Mission Impact of Cyberattacks: Report of the NATO IST-128 Workshop
Alexander Kott, Nikolai Stoianov, Nazife Baykal, Alfred Moller,, Reginald Sawilla, Pram Jain, Mona Lange, and Cristian Vidu

TL;DR
This report discusses a NATO workshop that emphasizes developing model-driven approaches to assess and mitigate the impact of cyberattacks on military missions, highlighting the importance of simulation and analysis for decision-making.
Contribution
It introduces a new model-driven paradigm for simulating cyberattack impacts on missions and exploring mitigation strategies, advancing beyond traditional pattern-based assessments.
Findings
Model-driven simulation of mission impacts
Enhanced decision support for cyberattack mitigation
Potential for identifying novel impact patterns
Abstract
This report presents the results of a workshop conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2015 to explore science and technology for characterizing the impact of cyber-attacks on missions. Military mission success is highly dependent on the communications and information systems (CISs) that support the mission and their use in the cyber battlespace. The inexorably growing dependency on computational information processing for weapons, intelligence, communication, and logistics systems continues to increase the vulnerability of missions to various cyber threats. Attacks on CISs or other cyber incidents degrade or disrupt the usage of CISs, and the resulting mission capability, performance, and completion. These incidents are expected to increase in frequency and sophistication. The workshop…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Information and Cyber Security · Military Strategy and Technology
