A DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program project  

Cyber-SA

Computer-aided Human Centric

Cyber Situation Awareness

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Problems with Today¡¯s Cyber Situation Awareness

Today¡¯s cyber situation awareness (C-SA) has two fundamental limitations:

  • Existence of huge gap between human cognition and C-SA algorithms (and tools): The amount of information contained in ¡°raw¡± situation data collected by C-SA tools is several orders of magnitude greater than the ¡°cognition throughput¡± of human analysts; Critical links from data to decision are missing.
  • Existence of big ¡°blind spots¡±: existing cyber SA tools and systems, including auditing, vulnerability scanners, attack graph tools, intrusion detection systems, damage assessment tools, and forensics tools, still have big ¡°blind spots¡± in their ¡°views¡± of the cyber situation in concern.  

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Cyber-SA Vision

  • Solve the first problem by building the missing links through innovations in C-SA specific information and knowledge fusion, cognition automation, artificial intelligence, and visual analytics.
  • Solve the second problem through awareness-driven cyber defense instead of malware behavior dependent defense. Automatic blind spot identification and monitoring techniques will be developed. 
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Acknowledgement

  • This project is a DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program project, funded through Army Research Office.

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     Announcements

¡¤       MURI Research Review on July 9, 2015 in College Park, MD

¡¤       MURI Research Review on Nov. 18, 2014 in Santa Barbara, CA

¡¤       MURI Research Review on Oct. 29, 2013 in Phoenix, AZ

¡¤       A book about Cyber Situational Awareness...

¡¤       An overview article on cyber situational awareness... More....

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