Investing in Cyber Defense: A Value-Focused Analysis of Investment Decisions for Microgrids

To mitigate disruptions to commercial power grids, and to achieve operational efficiencies by managing energy use, many organizations are fielding smaller, local, self-contained microgrids. The computer control systems that operate the microgrids create new vulnerabilities to a rapidly-escalating array of cyber attacks. This creates a tension between the need to improve energy assurance and efficiency through microgrids, and the need to protect against cyber attacks that can disrupt and damage the organization\u27s energy systems. Through a series of interviews with subject matter experts and end-users, this exploratory study surfaces the decision-makers\u27 important values in this decision space and develops a network of those values to guide decision-makers to make better decisions in balancing these competing needs

Cyber-defense return on investment for NAVFAC energy technologies

This study was conducted in support of a Department of Defense (DOD) effort to improve cyber-security in relation to DOD installation control systems. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) is developing programs to assist decision-making for the selection of cyber-security products for U.S. naval installations and infrastructure. We interviewed a sample of Naval Facilities Engineering Command employees utilizing the Value-Focused Thinking technique developed by Dr. Ralph Keeney in the 1990s. The interviews revealed various means objectives and fundamental objectives that we compiled into a network. The network organizes values into means and fundamental objectives and also helps to clarify terminology often used within cyber-security communities. Our goal is for, through organization and the clarification of terms, this study to serve as an initial step to the identification of objective performance measurements, which can inform the decision making-process.http://archive.org/details/cyberdefenseretu1094556728Captain, United States Marine CorpsApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited