Lockheed Martin has unveiled a model for measuring the cyber resiliency of weapon systems.
Dubbed the Cyber Resiliency Level (CRL) model, the defense giant boasts this is a first-of-its-kind concept focusing exclusively on defense weapon systems, mission systems and training systems — not IT systems.
The model lists four resiliency levels — ad-hoc, managed, optimized and adaptive — that six categories are weighed against.
The categories include:
Visibility: the ability to efficiently sense, collect and infuse data;
Cyber hygiene: the ability to assess and maintain the effectiveness of cyber controls;
Requirements: the needs for certain capabilities, which officials said is commensurate with mission importance and risk to operational environment;
Test and evaluation: the ability to measure the effectiveness of controls against mission objectives;
Architecture: the ability to maintain a capability against cyberattacks; and
Information sharing: can a program share threat information with other programs.
Lockheed Martin Cyber Resiliency Level model (Lockheed Martin)
The reason for developing this model was threefold, Jim Keffer, director of cyber at Lockheed Martin Government Affairs, told reporters Aug. 13 at Lockheed’s Arlington, Virginia, Global Vision Center.
First was urgency. Threats continue to target critical systems and the Department of Defense did not start writing requirements for cybersecurity of weapon systems until the 2014-2015 timeframe, Keffer said.
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