GCRI · Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience
STEM foundation of Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
Six pages under STEM foundation of Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience.
The methods behind the field.
- 01Cybersecurity and cryptographyControl baselines and gap analysis · Exploited vulnerability prioritisationSteward · Cybersecurity and Digital ResilienceApplied here
- 02Software and safety-critical systems engineeringSecure development life cycle · Safety and security co-assuranceSteward · Cybersecurity and Digital ResilienceApplied here
- 03Communications and network technologyNetwork segmentation design · Protocol security review · Post-quantum protocol readinessSteward · Critical InfrastructureApplied here
- 04Network science and contagionAttack path analysis · Digital dependency concentration · Coordination detectionSteward · Systems Science and ModellingApplied here
- 05Reliability and resilience engineeringRecovery architecture · Degraded operation modes · Recovery time testingSteward · Critical InfrastructureApplied here
- 06Quantum computing, sensing and communicationQuantum threat timeline assessment · Comparing PQC and QKD · Data lifetime analysisSteward · Quantum TechnologiesApplied here
Why cyber needs this combination of methods.
Cyber resilience needs cybersecurity and cryptography for controls, network science for shared dependencies, safety-critical software for systems with physical consequences, communications for the carrier networks, resilience engineering for recovery and quantum technology for the cryptographic transition. The combination matters because systemic cyber events cross all six: a faulty update is a software, network, communications and recovery problem at once.
Cyber resilience combines cybersecurity with safety-critical software, communications, network science, resilience engineering and quantum technology.
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