Accession Number:

ADA606281

Title:

Does It Matter How the U.S. Army Organizes To Deal with Cyber Threats?

Descriptive Note:

Rept. for Feb 2013-Dec 2013

Corporate Author:

ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES

Personal Author(s):

• Roppoli, Shane A.

Report Date:

2013-12-10

Pagination or Media Count:

50.0

Abstract:

A review of the open-source cyber security and organizational design literature suggests that the factors of complexity and rate of change combine to generate uncertainty within the cyber domain. This monograph examines four cyber attack case studies to identify and compare their environmental and contextual factors and to assess the relationship between uncertainty and organizational design. The cyber attack case studies demonstrate the importance of experts in enabling organizations to deal with ill-structured problems. They also suggest that no single organizational design is optimal for dealing with all threats in the cyber domain, because ill-structured problems require diverse expertise to identify and structure them. The hypothesis that complexity and rate of change increase uncertainty about cyber threats was confirmed. The findings suggest that future organizational designs must be able to gain access to experts to hedge against forecasted cyber threats.

Descriptors:

• *ARMY OPERATIONS
• *CYBERWARFARE
• *MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS
• CASE STUDIES
• NATIONAL SECURITY
• THREATS
• UNCERTAINTY

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE