Enhancing Cyberweapon Effectiveness Methodology With SE Modeling Techniques: Both for Offense and Defense

Background

With the current increase in technology, the world is shifting towards digitization, making it more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This continuous shift in various dimensions of risk – including those in the cyber realm – is characteristic of the complex nature of risk itself (Pinto et al. 2012). These cyber-attacks are proven to be of great damage to companies, customers, and nations, which makes cybersecurity a necessity (DiMase et al., 2015). Cybersecurity has become one of the most important topics globally, as countries worldwide provided their stance on cybersecurity (Klimburg, 2012; Tatar, Ü, et al., 2014). Systems engineering methodologies can be acquired to enhance cybersecurity for addressing cybersecurity issues. For example, Bayuk et al. (2011) highlighted beneficial systems engineering strategies that can solve frequent system security problems. In their work, Bayuk et al. (2011) focused on the benefits systems engineers can provide to the cybersecurity issue. In this paper, we merge two methodologies, a cyberweapons assessment methodology and a systems engineering methodology, to show the utility of using systems engineering in the domain of cyberweapon assessment.