The Science of Mission Assurance
K. Jabbour, Sarah L. Muccio · Journal of Strategic Security · 2011
The intent of this article is to describe—and prescribe—a scientific frameworkfor assuring mission essential functions in a contested cyber environment.Such a framework has profound national security implicationsas the American military increasingly depends on cyberspace to executecritical mission sets. In setting forth this prescribed course of action, thearticle will first decompose information systems into atomic processesthat manipulate information at all six phases of the information lifecycle,then systematically define the mathematical rules that govern missionassurance.