Ensuring U.S. Air Force operations during cyber attacks against combat support systems
Subtitle: guidance for where to focus mitigation efforts
By: Don Snyder, George E. Hart, Kristin F. Lynch, John G. Drew
Series: Report
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780833086297
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Combat sustainability; Cyberspace operations (Military science); Cyberterrorism; Risk assessment; Prevention; United States. Air Force
Other titles: Ensuring United States Air Force operations during cyber attacks against combat support systems
Description: "While combat support communities are not responsible for defending cyber networks, they are required to ensure mission execution, including when under cyber attack. Assessing mission assurance for combat support when under a cyber attack is challenging. The fact that many combat support systems do not reside on the most secure networks indicates potential vulnerabilities to cyber attack. Yet the sheer number of information systems that can be attacked, the range of vulnerabilities that these might have, the large number of combat support functions they support, and the complicated connections all of these have to operational missions makes assessments difficult. Add to this the evolving nature of the threats and vulnerabilities in cyberspace, and the task of finding adequate mitigation plans for all possibilities is formidable. RAND researchers developed a tool that presents a sequential process for identifying those functions and information systems most likely to be problematic for the operational mission during cyber attacks"--Publisher's web site.
Notes: "RR-620-AF"--Cover page 4.

"RAND Project AIR FORCE."

"Prepared for the United States Air Force.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-24).

Also available online in PDF format from Rand Corporation web site.
Table of contents: title: Analyzing cyber attacks against combat support; title: A decision support tool for identifying areas of highest interest.