Cyber situation awareness and teamwork

Cyber situation awareness and teamwork

Cyber analysis is a complex task that requires the coordination of a large sociotechnical system of human analysts working together with technology. Adequate situation awareness of such a complex system requires more than aggregate situation awareness of individuals. Teamwork in the form of communication and information coordination is at the heart of team-level situation awareness. In this pos...

Overview of Cyber Situation Awareness

Improving a decision maker’s1 situational awareness of the cyber domain isn’t greatly different than enabling situation awareness in more traditional domains2. Situation awareness necessitates working with processes capable of identifying domain specific activities as well as processes capable of identifying activities that cross domains. These processes depend on the context of the environment...

Computer-Aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness

Objective: • Identify and fill the gap between machine info processing and analysts' SA mental processes. • Locate and remove the blind spots of existing cyber SA tools. • Build the next generation cyber defense Situation Room prototype.

A Taxonomy of Cyber Awareness Questions for the User-Centered Design of Cyber Situation Awareness

This paper offers insights to how cyber security analysts establish and maintain situation awareness of a large computer network. Through a series of interviews, observations, and a card sorting activity, we examined the questions analysts asked themselves during a network event. We present the results of our work as a taxonomy of cyber awareness questions that represents a mental model of situ...

RPD-based Hypothesis Reasoning for Cyber Situation Awareness