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Evolving Security

A. Sonalker1 and E. Griffor2,    1STEER Tech, Columbia, MD, United States,    2National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, United States

Abstract

The topic of system security, and in particular that of cybersecurity differs in a critical way from the other concerns we have about systems. Though concerns like safety and resilience do have challenges associated with design, realization, and validation to an ever changing operating environment, security faces an ever evolving adversary. When faced with constantly changing conditions under which a system must continue to deliver its function, designers attempt to model those conditions and test their design against that model. Modeling also becomes ...

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