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Emulytics for Cyber-Enabled Physical Attack Scenarios: Interim LDRD Report of Year One Results

Clem, John F.; Urias, Vincent U.; Atkins, William D.; Symonds, Christopher J.

Sandia National Laboratories has funded the research and development of a new capability to interactively explore the effects of cyber exploits on the performance of physical protection systems. This informal, interim report of progress summarizes the project’s basis and year one (of two) accomplishments. It includes descriptions of confirmed cyber exploits against a representative testbed protection system and details the development of an emulytics capability to support live, virtual, and constructive experiments. This work will support stakeholders to better engineer, operate, and maintain reliable protection systems.

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Risk-based cost-benefit analysis for security assessment problems

Proceedings - International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology

Wyss, Gregory D.; Clem, John F.; Darby, John L.; Guzman, Katherine D.; Hinton, John P.; Mitchiner, K.W.

Decision-makers want to perform risk-based cost-benefit prioritization of security investments. However, strong nonlinearities in the most common physical security performance metric make it difficult to use for cost-benefit analysis. This paper extends the definition of risk for security applications and embodies this definition in a new but related security risk metric based on the degree of difficulty an adversary will encounter to successfully execute the most advantageous attack scenario. This metric is compatible with traditional cost-benefit optimization algorithms, and can lead to an objective risk-based cost-benefit method for security investment option prioritization. It also enables decision-makers to more effectively communicate the justification for their investment decisions with stakeholders and funding authorities. ©2010 IEEE.

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