Research Methods for Cyber Security

Preface

Purpose

Working as professional researchers at a U.S. national research laboratory has provided us with a couple of unique perspectives. First, we have been uniquely involved in a nexus of academic, government, and industry research, privy to the perceptions and processes of each. Second, we work in an environment where we are often able to work with researchers and rub shoulders across a spectrum of fields: biology, chemistry, ecology, physics, and so on. Through these perspectives we have, over the years, noticed how little the cyber security field understands and leverages scientific methods.

Cyber security is a young field of science. As it naturally grew out of the computer science field, it has a strong grounding in mathematical ...