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Fusion or Fantasy: Is Cyber Fusion Living Up to the Dream?

Authors:
Anne Coull

Keywords: Cyber Fusion Centre; Intelligence; Counterinsurgence Operations; Counterterrorism; Crisis Management.

Abstract:
The Cyber Fusion Centre has evolved from a military and antiterrorist intelligence gathering centre to become an intelligence foci for collating information and facilitating cyber incident management in organisations. Some benefit is being realised in Australia’s larger banks as they manage the challenge of coordinating cyber response across disparate and siloed teams. These simple Cyber Fusion Centres provide basic, manual, reactive coordination of cyber incidents by generating open communication between response teams. This basic fusion model being implemented in Australian banks, and documented in the FS-ISAC whitepaper, is miles from the visionary Cyber Fusion Centre models described in the literature. These theoretical centres of response excellence incorporating strategic threat intelligence, orchestration, crisis simulations and ultimate real-time response-capability are well beyond the current reality. The answers for closing the gap between theory and practice can be found by looking into the original military fusion centres.

Pages: 38 to 45

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: September 25, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8599

ISBN: 978-1-68558-113-8

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from September 25, 2023 to September 29, 2023