As Defense agencies and services expand their reliance on computer networks, risk to information availability and integrity increases. It is no longer adequate to rely solely on the now traditional defense-in-depth strategy. We must recognize that we are engaged in a form of warfare, cyber warfare, and deploy our resources using the strategy and tactics of warfare. Most Defense organizations ha...

Developers of tomorrow’s Command and Control centers are facing numerous problems related to the vast amount of available information obtained from various sources. On a lower level, huge amounts of uncertain reports from different sensors need to be fused into comprehensible information. On a higher level, representation and management of the aggregated information will be the main task, with ...

A botnet is a group of compromised computers— often a large group—under the command and control of a malicious botmaster. Botnets can be used for a wide variety of malicious attacks, including spamming, distributed denial of service, and identity theft. Botnets are generally recognized as a serious threat on the Internet. This paper discusses SocialNetworkingBot, a botnet we have developed that...

INTRODUCTION Since its inception, just after the Second World War, ergonomics research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems. Command and Control environments continue to represent a challenging domain for Ergonomics research. We take a broad view of Command and Control research, to include C2 (Command and Control), C3 (Command, Control and Communication)...

This paper will outline issues associated with communication system interoperability, the security vulnerabilities associated with improved interoperability, network simulation to support the evaluation of the effects of worm-induced packet storms and the experimental design, implementation and results using the OPNET simulation environment.

Real-time tasks for command and control systems are too large or too complex for one processor to handle. Simply adding more CPUs does not result in a linear increase in performance. Current comparative analysis of parallel algorithms does not accurately reflect the increased cost of scheduling when more processors are added. A case is made that associative processors effectively handle real-ti...

This article presents the Information System used by the State Agency for Civil Protection of the Republic of Bulgaria (IS-CPRB). The IS-CPRB is designed for collecting, processing and distributing up-to-date analyses, assessments and information on chemical, biological and hydrometeorological emergencies as well as emergencies related to radiation, traffic or fire, including natural disasters,...