DARPA Looks to Ensure Cyber Resiliency in Weapons Systems
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 19/04/2017
U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilots fly near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, April 5, 2017. The 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, are preparing to assume their mission in support of Operation Freedom's Sentinel and Resolute Support Mission. (Capt. Brian Harris) - www.army.mil
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching a program aimed at building cyber resiliency into defense programs at a systems level, following the successful demonstration of a project focused on the software side.
The Cyber Assured Systems Engineering (CASE) project will look at how cybersecurity techniques can be applied in a broad, scalable fashion, by making cyber-resiliency a 'non-functional property' at the system level. This means it would be considered an essential component of a system's design from the outset, no matter what its 'functional properties,' i.e. the precise role it is designed to carry out.
Cyber-resiliency would become a core attribute of every defense platform and would be placed alongside other non-functional properties, such as reliability, durability, and performance.
The idea is that a system would be able "to execute its function even in the face of cyber attacks," said Raymond Richards, program manager in DARPA's Information Innovation Office. The agency aims to have the CASE program up and running by the end of 2017.
[Source: janes.com]
U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilots fly near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, April 5, 2017. The 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, are preparing to assume their mission in support of Operation Freedom's Sentinel and Resolute Support Mission. (Capt. Brian Harris) - www.army.mil
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching a program aimed at building cyber resiliency into defense programs at a systems level, following the successful demonstration of a project focused on the software side.
The Cyber Assured Systems Engineering (CASE) project will look at how cybersecurity techniques can be applied in a broad, scalable fashion, by making cyber-resiliency a 'non-functional property' at the system level. This means it would be considered an essential component of a system's design from the outset, no matter what its 'functional properties,' i.e. the precise role it is designed to carry out.
Cyber-resiliency would become a core attribute of every defense platform and would be placed alongside other non-functional properties, such as reliability, durability, and performance.
The idea is that a system would be able "to execute its function even in the face of cyber attacks," said Raymond Richards, program manager in DARPA's Information Innovation Office. The agency aims to have the CASE program up and running by the end of 2017.
[Source: janes.com]
