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Authors:
William Yurcik
Stephen North
Rhonda O’Kane
O. Sami Saydjari
Fabio Roberto de Miranda
Rodolfo da Silva Avelino
Gregory Pluta
Keywords: critical infrastructures protection, cybersecurity quantification, cybersecurity management.
Abstract:
The current state of cybersecurity protection is reactive response to solving problems as they arise. Many efforts have been undertaken to raise cybersecurity protection awareness and legal liability in an effort to reduce the number and impact of problems, however, problems continue to arise and the result of these improvement efforts is unmeasured and unknown. We propose a new paradigm where cybersecurity posture can be proactively baselined (on a large scale) and then strategic interventions to improve cybersecurity posture can be measured with quantitative results (on a large scale). To demonstrate, we focus on USA healthcare which is currently estimated to be about 17% of the U.S. economy. We show the cybersecurity posture of a large critical national infrastructure can be quantitatively baselined. We accomplish this with an implementation combining the use of data reducing ratings and data visualization techniques. To our knowledge this new paradigm results in the first Internet security management findings for a large national infrastructure.
Pages: 11 to 18
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2025
Publication date: October 26, 2025
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2519-8491
ISBN: 978-1-68558-312-5
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from October 26, 2025 to October 30, 2025