Cyber Resiliency via Virtualization for Combat Systems

Addressing cyber resiliency for Navy combat systems, such as AEGIS and SSDS, requires acute awareness of the impact that leveraging key cyber resiliency techniques and technologies will have on mission capabilities. The goal of cyber resiliency frameworks that support mission-critical systems are to minimize the time spent recovering and restoring a system from a cyber-attack and to maximize the time spent with full mission capabilities. In order to successfully endure, recover, and restore the system when faced with a cyber-attack, it is critical to have access to mission capability metrics as well as intimate awareness of the underlying system dependencies. IDT’s solution aims to maintain full system capability by leveraging the following 5 cyber resiliency techniques: adaptive response, heterogeneity, distributed allocation, redundancy, and coordinated defense. Our solution pairs a Revolving Defense Attack Surface (RDAS), that is able to swiftly execute the ‘hot-swap’ of new capability, with Real-Time Risk Assessment (RRA), which provides operational-readiness transparency across a battery of multiple virtual configurations to maximize the benefits of virtualization and provides the cyber resiliency operational picture necessary to successfully manage operational risk and achieve the next level of cyber resiliency for combat systems.