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Authors:
Anne Coull
Elena Sitnikova
Keywords: Cyber Fusion Centre; Intelligence; Counterinsurgence Operations; Counterterrorism; Crisis Management; Continuous Performance Improvement.
Abstract:
Critical infrastructure organisations with operating environments spanning multiple domains and/or with multi-dimensional threats are looking for ways to accelerate response to cyber incidents. Cyber Fusion Centres are emerging as potential models for managing inter-related multi-domain and multi-dimensional threats. Through history, military fusion centres have facilitated integrated strategic operational multi-domain situational awareness in times of conflict. 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. But the true visionary potential of the Cyber Fusion Centre models described in the literature are not yet being achieved. These theoretical centres of response-excellence incorporating strategic threat intelligence, orchestration, crisis simulations and real-time response capability are well beyond the current reality. Analysing the original military fusion centres to fully understand how these models function, and applying this more wholistic approach to implementing fusion for cyber closes the gap between theory and practice to deliver the anticipated benefits from Cyber Fusion Centres.
Pages: 49 to 60
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2024. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2024
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2679