Graph analytics and visualization for cyber situational understanding

Steven Noel, Stephen Purdy, Annie O’Rourke, Edward Overly, Brianna Chen, Christine DiFonzo, Joseph Chen, George Sakellis, Mandira Hegde, Mano Sapra, Corrine Araki, Jeremy Martin, Ben Koehler, John Keenan, Timothy Coen, William W Watson, Jerry Harper and Kevin Jacobs

The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2023, vol. 20, issue 1, 81-95

Abstract: This paper describes the Cyber Situational Understanding (Cyber SU) Proof of Concept (CySUP) software system for exploring advanced Cyber SU capabilities. CySUP distills complex interrelationships among cyberspace entities to provide the “so what†of cyber events for tactical operations. It combines a variety of software components to build an end-to-end pipeline for live data ingest that populates a graph knowledge base, with query-driven exploratory analysis and interactive visualizations. CySUP integrates with the core infrastructure environment supporting command posts to provide a cyber overlay onto a common operating picture oriented to tactical commanders. It also supports detailed analysis of cyberspace entities and relationships driven by ad hoc graph queries, including the conversion of natural language inquiries to formal query language. To help assess its Cyber SU capabilities, CySUP leverages automated cyber adversary emulation to carry out controlled cyberattack campaigns that impact elements of tactical missions.

Keywords: Cyber situational understanding; mission dependency modeling; common operating picture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/15485129211051385

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