Modeling a Cyber Defense Business Ecosystem of Ecosystems

Abstract

Providing cyber defense in a country is complex. It involves ensuring the security of various products and services that are part of a global supply chain. In this complex scenario, the challenge is the development of a cyber defense business ecosystem that, reaching a minimum level of maturity, guarantees the security of products and services in cyberspace. This work proposes a cyber defense business ecosystem of ecosystems (BEoE) model with two ecosystems that must be created or fostered, the human resources training ecosystem and the product and service homologation and certification ecosystem. These two cyber defense ecosystems are key to the sustainable growth of an entire chain of production and sourcing of cyber defense goods and services. The proposed model allows the Cyber Defense BEoE to evolve, so that different actors (companies and government agencies) with different levels of maturity in defense and cybersecurity may emerge. In this way, a country's Cyber Defense BEoE may be able to provide products and services at different levels of security for its defense system.