One of the primary concepts behind our approach for the CCS practice is the recognition of complex patterns both as a basis for Cyber attack tactics or strategies and as a basis for Cyber Health mitigation or even offensive Cyber operations. Cyber patterns are not only asymmetric, they are often asynchronous, which means that they are potentially multi-dimensional. A Cyber attack could occur across time, across geographic regions, across a diversity of targets using a variety of attack techniques and still support a single set of objectives.
Cyber attacks can also be coordinated across nodes or attack units and exhibit the same characteristics as above. The distribution of attack elements (or incidents, in this case the incident represents a component of the attack event) across time and across targets makes them very difficult to identify unless the results are immediately catastrophic.
Cyber Events are comprised of patterns; those patterns are collections of related incidents. Event-based attacks allow for synergistic effects which may be more problematic to detect, mitigate or anticipate based upon current methodologies and security infrastructures. There are also many patterns which may not inflict any harm whatsoever in the near-term. Pattern management is at the core of both the CCS Methodology and technical solution.
Any Cyber event can be modeled, however it helps if there is an underlying conceptual framework
