Cybersecurity as a Centralized Directed System of Systems Using SoS Explorer as a Tool

The vast advancements in computing technology and the profound reliance on inter-connected systems has led to a significant growth of cyber-attack incidents. The incidents can propagate from within or outside of organizations, thus ensuing detrimental consequences such as business conducting disruptions, market brand degradation, settlement charges, regulatory compliance issues, etc. The ability to withstand such interference is essential to maintaining a vital and competitively advantageous organization. This paper analyzes coexisting vulnerabilities and the utilization of innovative and effective mechanisms to identify and block undesirable emergence through a centrally controlled and directed SoS approach. The paper will use SoS Explorer as a tool to architect, model and optimize the many objective cybersecurity complex system dealing with securing from exploiting threats through threat-inhibiting systems. The tool provides an intuitive and interactive visualization enabling the user to produce “what-if” analysis on various scenarios, especially for time evolving dynamics of cybersecurity, through generated optimization functional architecture solutions. The paper will further discuss vulnerability exploitation and cybersecurity implications on banking domain describing speculative observations followed by future research directions.