Enterprise functioning quality management under conditions of destructive program actions

Abstract

The trends of development of modern enterprises lead to building network-connected territorially dispersed structures, which determine the enhanced requirements to control systems. Therefore, the control systems are compelled to use general technological resource — cyber-domain, which is the reason for transition of competitive confrontation to technological sphere and leads to the emergence of premeditated direct or indirect destructive program actions as one of the most efficient facilities for getting competitive advantage. The enterprise functioning quality control under new conditions requires provision of a subsystem of taking decisions with timely, authentic and complete information on the state of cyber-domain. The task of getting such information can be realized using modeling methods. The analysis of the existing modeling methods of communication networks has demonstrated availability of an essential deficiency — absence of keeping record of destructive program actions with simultaneous functioning of two conflicting enterprise control systems at the unified technological resource. The article describes a new method of simulating communication networks rectifying the revealed deficiency. The presented method can make a basis of the model, which is capable to enhance information awareness of the subsystem of taking decisions on the state of a simulated network, enhancing by the same the quality of enterprise control and, accordingly, the quality of functioning of the enterprise proper. The article is the development of the method of simulating of premeditated damages of elements of communication network patented by the authors.