Securing Cloud-Based Simulation Capabilities
(Room S320GH)
28 Nov 18
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Robert Siegfried, Managing Director, aditerna GmbH; Tom Irwin, SES Executive Director, Joint Force Development and Design Integration, U.S. Joint Staff J7; Ian West, Chief, Cybersecurity, NATO Communications and Information Agency; Patrick Stoddart, Director Army Digital Service, Defense Digital Service; Christopher Johnson, Security Program Manager, Google; Michele Turi, Director, NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence, Italy
Cloud-based simulation capabilities will impact all future training environments and acquisition programs. An integral part of this currently ongoing transition is to integrate cybersecurity from the beginning and to provide security by design. This Special Event gives every simulation engineer, project manager, and leadership a true view on the current state and open issues of cybersecurity for cloud-based simulation and training environments.
Modeling & Simulation as a Service
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is a key technology to deliver a great amount of military training, analysis, and decision making capabilities. Modeling & Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) combines service-based approaches with ideas taken from cloud computing. This “as a Service” paradigm supports stand-alone use as well as integration of simulated and real systems into a unified environment whenever the need arises. Leveraging commercial developments MSaaS is impacting all future simulation environments and acquisition programs.
Allied Framework for MSaaS
The Allied Framework for MSaaS is the common approach of NATO and nations towards implementing MSaaS. The joint effort is undertaken to pool and share simulation resources, and to achieve interoperability by design. Under the umbrella of the NATO Modeling & Simulation Group (NMSG) more than 100 subject matter experts from 16 nations and various NATO bodies are working together to realize the MSaaS vision that M&S products, data and processes are conveniently accessible and available on-demand to all users in order to enhance operational effectiveness. Demonstrations with federated cloud environments show that MSaaS and cloud-based simulation are not only ideas, but actually work today!
Integrating Cybersecurity into MSaaS!
Cybersecurity is a major challenge for realizing cloud-based simulation environments, and as such cybersecurity must be integrated into cloud-based simulation capabilities from the beginning. This Special Event gives every