An Architecture for Improving Timeliness and Relevance of Cyber Incident Notifications

<p>This research proposes a communications architecture to deliver timely and relevant cyber incident notifications to dependent mission stakeholders. This architecture modeled in Unified Modeling Language (UML) eschews the traditional method of pushing notifications via message as dictated in Air Force Instruction 33-138. It instead shifts to a pull or publish and subscribe method of making notifications. Shifting this paradigm improves the notification process by empowering mission owners to identify those resources on which they depend for mission accomplishment provides a direct conduit between providing and dependent mission owners for notifications when an incident occurs and provides a shared representation for all with authority for that dependent mission. Once the incident's impact is assessed the architecture provides a conduit for the mission stakeholder(s) receiving the incident notification to then notify their downstream users of their status should it have changed because of the incident. The proposed architecture significantly speeds incident notification by eliminating multiple layers of processing and does so in a relatively noise-free environment as compared to current notification methods.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>