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Resilient Military Systems Cyber Threat.pdf
Resilient Military Systems Cyber Threat

Report on cyber threats to military systems and strategies for resilience.

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  • Q: What is a 'Tier V-VI' attacker?
    A: A state actor able to invest billions of dollars and years of time to create vulnerabilities in systems.
  • Q: What is the 'Red Queen' hypothesis?
    A: The concept that the defender must expend all effort just to stay in the same relative place against an evolving adversary.
  • Q: What is an 'Existential Cyber Attack'?
    A: An attack capable of causing sufficient wide-scale damage for the government to potentially lose control of the country.
  • Q: What is 'Resilience' defined as in this report?
    A: The ability to provide acceptable operations despite disruption: natural or man-made, inadvertent or deliberate.
  • Q: What is the 'Gold Standard' for restoration?
    A: Restoring a system to a known, trusted state.
  • Q: Why is 'Defense-only' considered a failed strategy?
    A: Because it is impossible to fully defend against Tier V-VI threats; deterrence and resilience are also required.
  • Q: What is the 'Cyber Threat Taxonomy'?
    A: A hierarchy dividing threats into Tiers I-VI based on skill level and resources.
  • Q: What is 'Cyber Critical Survivable Mission'?
    A: A specific force or capability segmented and hardened to ensure mission execution in a cyber-stressed environment.
  • Q: What is the recommendation regarding Nuclear Strike?
    A: Protect the nuclear strike capability to ensure it remains a credible deterrent against existential cyber attacks.
  • Q: What are the three parameters of Cyber Risk defined in the report?
    A: Threat (Intent/Capability), Vulnerabilities (Inherent/Introduced), and Consequences (Fixable/Fatal).

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