Toward Resilient Systems

Resilience is a key challenge for combat mission systems in the defense community as a result of accumulating technical debt, outdated procurement frameworks, and a recurring failure to prioritize learning over compliance. The result is brittle technology systems and organizations strained to the point of compromising basic mission functions in the face of changing technology and evolving threats.

Projects

How Do You Fix a Flying Computer? Seeking Resilience in Software-Intensive Mission Systems

Mission Resilience: Adapting Defense Aerospace to Evolving Cybersecurity Challenges

Protecting the New Frontier: Seven Perspectives on Aerospace Cybersecurity

A Plea to the Pentagon: Don’t Sacrifice Resilience on the Altar of Innovation

The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, under the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), works at the nexus of geopolitics and cybersecurity to craft strategies to help shape the conduct of statecraft and to better inform and secure users of technology.

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Resilience

Wed, Nov 13, 2024

The Role of Data in Improving Cyber Insurance Pricing

In order to improve cybersecurity through cyber insurance, the private sector should aggregate cyber incident data to inform risk models and in turn, more accurately price cyber premiums.

by Alphaeus Hanson

Cybersecurity Standards and Requirements Resilience

Mon, Jul 10, 2023

Critical Infrastructure and the Cloud: Policy for Emerging Risk

Critical infrastructure increasingly depends upon cloud computing. Policy must adapt its approach to risk management accordingly.

by Tianjiu Zuo, Justin Sherman, Maia Hamin, and Stewart Scott

Cloud Computing Cybersecurity