The Measurement of Cyber Resilience in Context : Army Research Lab , April 1 , 2025
The Measurement of Cyber Resilience in Context : Army Research Lab , April 1 , 2025
From the abstract: “In the 2000s, research on the resilience of engineered systems gave rise to a research agenda on “cyber resilience,” which is the ability of cyber systems to recover from stress. The development of resilient cyberspace systems was seen as a complement to traditional cybersecurity, which focused on hardening systems to prevent attacks. As an initial step, researchers sought to define and measure cyber resilience. This report considers both history and metrology to understand how this literature can mature. Materials scientists first measured the resilience of materials to compressive stress in the 19th century. The word “resilience” was then applied more widely by analogy and become the name of a broad, unmeasurable concept. While it may be possible to measure some system response to some stimulus for a given system, such a measurement does not necessarily capture other system responses to other stimuli and thus cannot capture the whole of the concept of resilience. Because there are many systems, possible stimuli, and possible responses, measurement alone may not contribute significantly to knowledge. As research on this topic matures, the value of a proposed measurement or measurement approach should be demonstrated by its service to a research question or decision-making model.”
Authors - Thomas, M.A.Related Resources
