An Overview Of Cyber Attack

An Overview of Cyber Attack and Computer Network Operations Simulation
Ian Chapman,
Mélanie Bernier
Centre for Operational Research and Analysis
Defence Research and Development Canada
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Sylvain P. Leblanc,
Andrew Partington
Computer Security Laboratory
Royal Military College of Canada
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Keywords: Overview, Survey Paper, Cyber Attacks, Cyber
Warfare, Computer Network Operations

Cyber attacks have the potential to be extremely disruptive to a wired society. To understand some of the ramifications of these events, including their potential impact on the use of networks, the research community has begun the development of a number of applications to simulate cyber warfare. The paper is separated in two main sections. The first part will discuss prominent private sector and academic research, while the second will discuss public sector research in the field of modeling and simulation for cyber warfare. This paper is intended to present the results of our survey of current unclassified research literature, openly published on the topic of simulation for cyber warfare. It is not meant to be all encompassing. The authors have not found other works that attempt to summarize key efforts in this area of study.
The authors believe that simulation will make ever greater contributions to the field of cyber warfare and CNO.
This paper and the Military Modeling Symposium that flow from it should be viewed as an attempt to engage the research community on this important emerging topic.

Abstract
This paper represents a snapshot of the current state of the art in the simulation and modeling of cyber attacks and defensive responses to those. It discusses a number of simulations of cyber warfare, including live, virtual, and constructive simulations. The simulations discussed in this paper were found in the open literature and were conducted in the private sector, academia, and government. Each

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