Conclusion
Providing true cyber warfare survivability requires a fully committed leadership, technical team, and partner alignment. Surviving these types of conflicts is a technically, politically, financially, and procedurally complex issue. In combat, the ability to move and maneuver and the adoption of basic concepts and solid practices is what will help an entity survive. Survival is the goal; anything better than that is simply icing on the cake. Those that survive the longest win.
The goal of cyber defense is to minimize the magnitude of the attacker's effect, increase costs to the attacker, increase the uncertainty that the attack was successful, and increase the chance of detection and remediation. Survivability is the ability of a system, subsystem, equipment, process, or procedure to function continually during and after a disturbance. This must be the focus of our attention as the digital battlespace continues to be transited. As long as the critical functions of...