Impact of team collaboration on cybersecurity situational awareness

Prashanth Rajivan, Nancy Cooke

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

20 Scopus citations

Abstract

Information complexity and expanse of cybersecurity space surpasses the cognitive ability of individual analysts to be truly situationally aware. Team level situation awareness in cyber security can be described as the coordinated perception and comprehension of significant events in the network by all team members that serve as the basis for effective response actions. Effective teamwork is imperative to transform individual analysts’ disparate cognition and situation awareness into team level, collective cognition and situation awareness. We employed a hybrid methodology that makes opportunistic use of a mix of field observations, simulation, modeling, and laboratory experimentation to study and improve team situation awareness in the cyber security domain. Findings from experiments summarized in this chapter demonstrate the important role of teamwork at every level of cyber security defense and the detrimental effect of team process loss on overall cyber defense performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages203-226
Number of pages24
Volume10030
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10030
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Cognitive task analysis
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Cyber security
  • EAST
  • Human factors
  • Modeling
  • Simulation
  • Teamwork

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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