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GMU C4I Center Seminar

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Developing a Complex Environment to Evaluate
the Impact of Cyber Actions on the Operational Domain

Maj Alexandre de Barros Barreto

Friday, January 25, 2013 at 1:00 PM

Engineering building, Room 4705

ABSTRACT

Evaluating the impact that events within the cyber domain have on ongoing military operations is a non-trivial question, which, so far, remains unanswered in spite of the various research efforts addressing it. The key issue underlying this question is the difficulty in correlating cyber and physical behaviors in an integrated view, thus allowing a continuous analysis. This presentation will show a framework (Cyber-Argus) that addresses this question, through correlation and aggregation data available in the infrastructure and the mission. Cyber-Argus provides an evaluation of cyber impact over mission during its realization, enabling analyst to prioritize his actions (defensive view point) and to identify the vulnerabilities of enemy (offensive view point). One scenario will be presented at the conclusion of the seminar helping the audience to understand all concepts involved in the research and how the experiment will be validated.

BIO

Alexandre de Barros Barreto is a Brazilian Air Force (BAF) Major and a PhD Candidate in Computer Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) in Brazil. He recently worked in Brazil's Department of Airspace Control, where he was responsible for managing Information Technology infrastructure in the Amazon Region and developing simulator specifications for training air traffic controllers. Maj. Barreto is currently a Research Associate at the C4I Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he is using the C2 Collaborative Research Testbed for his PhD Research