Robotechnical System for Analyzing Cyber-Security of Information Communication Systems and Networks

The paper deals with the various aspects of cybernetic confrontation. The authors substantiate the urgency of creating a proactive protection management system and propose hardware and software solutions based on the development of a mobile robotic system. The paper describes the system designed to audit the stability of the network infrastructure to existing and prospective cyber threats, to its architecture and functionality. Cyber warfare marks a new level of armed confrontation. An urgent requirement of the time, taking into account the robotization of weapons and military equipment, is the revision of the principles of building automated control systems, information systems and communication networks from the viewpoint of ensuring cybersecurity. The co-evolution of the cybersecurity system should provide: the detection of new, previously unknown cyber threats (cyber attacks) during the monitoring (exploration) of cyberspace; the automatic selection of the parameters of the functioning of information systems and communication networks under the conditions of destructive effects without deterioration of their main characteristics (cognitive platforms for building information and telecommunication networks). Intelligence in cyberspace requires digital penetration into the network and control systems of a potential enemy and involves the use of completely new sources, forms and methods of data and information collection, development of new intelligence tools and technologies, tactical and technical techniques. Thus, the system of cyber security should be provided for the possibility of pre-emptive hardware and software effects (pre-emptive attacks) and active attacks on information systems and resources of the opposing side, as well as the ability to misinformation by the opposing side of the true properties and parameters of information systems and communication networks.