This book is the first publication to give a comprehensive structured treatment to the
important topic of situational awareness in cyber defense. It presents the subject in a logical
consistent continuous discourse covering key topics such as formation of cyber situational
awareness visualization and human factors automated learning and inference use of ontologies
and metrics predicting and assessing impact of cyber attacks and achieving resilience of
cyber and physical mission. Chapters include case studies recent research results and
practical insights described specifically for this book. Situational awareness is exceptionally
prominent in the field of cyber defense. It involves science technology and practice of
perception comprehension and projection of events and entities in cyber space. Chapters
discuss the difficulties of achieving cyber situational awareness - along with approaches to
overcoming the difficulties - in the relatively young field of cyber defense where key
phenomena are so unlike the more conventional physical world. Cyber Defense and Situational
Awareness is designed as a reference for practitioners of cyber security and developers of
technology solutions for cyber defenders. Advanced-level students and researchers focused on
security of computer networks will also find this book a valuable resource.
