Unified Cybersecurity System Modeling of Naval Control Systems

Our Phase I research will focus on identifying modeling solutions that can incorporate a cybersecurity analysis capability into existing systems models. Using MBSE tools, sound systems engineering principles and a standards-based approach to data modeling (e.g., Systems Modeling Language (SySML)), G2 Ops has established a fully-automated, interactive method to evaluate how changes in technology affect an integrated system’s ability to fulfill its mission. Our research will build on this foundation to establish methodologies for integrating cybersecurity analysis.Our research approach will address the shortfalls identified by the topic to achieving the detailed level of data collection necessary to model and integrate relevant system attributes to enable a unified cybersecurity analysis platform. Our engineers and system modelers have developed and deployed an efficient data collection strategy that allows for rapid consumption of information housed in non-electronic and physical data stores. This strategy has been used to generate models of more than 18,000 end-to-end architectural elements, mission threads and interface requirements. We will research ways to expand this methodology to integrate additional cybersecurity relevant analytics within a unified, data concordant model.