Dissertation in the field of Networking Technology, Anssi Kärkkäinen
The title of thesis is Developing cyber security architecture for military networks using cognitive networking
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The importance of cyber security has increased in recent years. Citizens, society and even the armed forces are more and more dependent in networks and information systems in their daily business while cyber threats keep growing. Developing military communications capabilities is a long-term process, and the life cycle of a networking system can be decades. To develop cyber security it is necessary to take into account this long life cycle and compatibility. Cyber security architecture is an important tool for developing and managing cyber security capabilities in the long term development. The dissertation examines the development of cyber security architecture for military communications in the context of the phases of the NATO Network Enable Capability development roadmap. In a short and medium term, the capability development is based on common solutions and multilevel security. In a long term development, cognitive (intelligent and self-learning) networks are seen as a promising solution to build cyber secure communications networks. For the long term development, the dissertation presents a cyber security architecture with smart (cognitive) features providing auto-configuration, self-learning and intelligent network security for tactical military networks. The results of the dissertation can be utilized in the development of future military communications systems. Cyber security of military communications systems has been researched a lot, but the research has focused on the development of individual characteristics such as encryption. Overall cyber security architecture solutions have been presented rarely.
Opponents: Prof. Timo T. Hämäläinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Prof. Hannu H. Kari, National Defence University, Finland
Supervisor: Professor Jukka Manner, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Communications and Networking
Contact information:
Anssi Kärkkäinen
tel. +358 50 5441294
anssi.p.karkkainen@gmail.com