Developing modelling and simulation standards for including the Cyber Domain in Military Training and Exercises

As cyber operations are evolving to become a major military enabler, cyber activities and their resulting effects should also be represented in simulation environments. Currently much effort is being put into creating simulation environments to enable the simulation of cyber operations at the technical (network) level. At this level the focus is...

A Computational Ontology for Cyber Operations

Due to the advancement of technology and continuing emergence of international conflict situations, wars are now also conducted into the official new battlefield: cyberspace. Although several incidents have been characterized in terms of cyber operations, there is an important gap in the existing body of knowledge concerning the definition of...

Assessment Methodology for Collateral Damage and Military (Dis)Advantage in Cyber Operations

Cyber Operations stopped being utopia or Sci-Fi based scenarios: they became reality. When planning and conducting them, military actors encounter difficulties since they lack methodologies and models that support their actions and assess their effects. To address these issues by tackling the underlying scientific and practical gap, this article...

Cyber weapons: A profiling framework

In the last decades we witnessed the creation of a virtual world: cyberspace, which offers plenty of opportunities and challenges. Meanwhile, we are confronted with many conflict situations between different groups of people or countries. In the last years, several events have been described in terms of cyber warfare or the use of cyber weapons,...