Prof. Arun Sood, the CEO @ SCIT Labs and Professor of Computer Science and Director of the International Cyber Center at George Mason University participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Cyber Resilience and Recovery.
Cyber Resilience and Recovery
Rapid advances in computers, computer code, connected computers and information, communication, and digitization technologies are transforming the ability of each nation: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA) to better identify, collect, evaluate, manage and use its information and data as never before in cyberspace, geospace, and space (CGS).
The ongoing rapid advances in the interconnected and inter-dependent digital networks across CGS have removed the traditional communication barriers to effectively share data and information, unleashing the capacity of digital technology to revolutionize the economic, professional, personal, and social lives of each one of us across nations.
This transformative phenomenon has given rise to the cyber ecosystem: a complex and connected cyberspace-geospace and space (CGS) community of interconnected and interacting devices, networks, things, people, and entities across NGIOA: and the environment and ecosystem of its associated infrastructure, processes, and technologies supporting these complex interactions.
While the cyber ecosystem’s ability to simplify the sharing of data and information has simultaneously given each NGIOA its greatest advantage as well as disadvantage, the disadvantages come directly from the security vulnerability of critical infrastructure, and the theft, alteration, manipulation, or destruction of data by criminals or other malicious actors.
Irrespective of geographical location, any localized disruptions in cyberspace or through cyberspace can rapidly trigger a cascading sequence of events that can cause widespread disasters across entire CGS networks and communities. This is a cause of great concern as each entity across NGIOA is been unwillingly and unknowingly exposed to the “unwanted contagion effects” that are prospering in the rapidly expanding cyber ecosystem.
While each entity across NGIOA needs to transform their use of information, communication, and digital technology to maximize benefits, they must also develop cyber resilience: the ability to powerfully resist, react to and recover from potentially catastrophic cyber-security threats, and reshape their CGS environments for increasingly secure and sustainable cyber operations. How can that be achieved? How can cyber resilience and recovery be achieved?
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About the Guest
Prof. Arun Sood is the CEO of SCIT Labs. He is also a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the International Cyber Center at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
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