NDLI: Can a Theory that Integrates the Natural Systems Sciences Help Systems Engineering of Defense against Security Threats?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Troncale, L.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Citation of a range of security attacks across several scalar levels suggests shared commonalities of systems form and dynamics. These commonalities imply that one of the most powerful approaches to defense would be design that disrupts these pervasive underlying processes. We use a new, allegedly more comprehensive system of systems processes (SoSP) theory that enables expansion on just one of the key systems processes common to current security attacks, self-organization. We describe several words used in different disciplines that may be confused with self-organization and inhibit needed communication. We describe ten components of selforganization and seven linkage propositions that describe interactions between other systems processes and selforganization to increase resolution on this one vulnerable commonality of security attack. We suggest that the immense attention now given to "translating" lab results in medicine to new clinical treatments needs to be replicated in this domain. We need a "translational," topdown system of systems pathology to address widespread security attacks. We try to provide a glimpse of how the increased detail on just self-organization might help formulate better design of security systems. This serves as a case study of the even more fertile potential of using the 100+ systems processes and many linkage propositions from a unified SoSP as a rich source for security design.
Starting Page	947
Ending Page	952
File Size	492952
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612844275
DOI	10.1109/ITNG.2011.213
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-04-11
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Couplings Pathology self-organization Communities Humans linkage propositions Organizations discinyms Security systems processes systems pathology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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