An Approach to Estimate the Impact to Mission Functions Following a Cyber Breach
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The ability to plan, execute, and oversee military operations relies on well-defined operational functions, which for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are command, sense, act, shield, and sustain. These functions, crucial in collaborative engagements and coalition campaigns, constitute a tailored balance essential for battlespace roles and are increasingly conducted in and through cyberspace. However, the increased frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks targeting the military’s operations in and through cyberspace pose a threat to these foundational pillars of military capability, potentially endangering ongoing missions. Understanding the consequences of a cyber breach on these mission functions is therefore imperative for commanders to make informed decisions. To address this need, we propose employing Cyber Damage Assessment (CDA) measures to estimate the impact on specific operational functions following a cyber breach. Our approach involves ingesting operational and business data to determine metrics and measures representing losses resulting from a cyber breach. We then use fuzzy logic to aggregate measures for multiple key performance indicators for cyber damage with commanders’ experiential knowledge regarding military capabilities and their corresponding losses, thereby providing estimates to the impacts on specific military functions following a cyber breach. Our results, which are self-consistent, offer impact estimates aligned with commanders’ experiential insights, thus providing valuable input for decision-making in the face of a cyber breach scenario.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".