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Abstract

Cyber security has emerged as one of the dominant challenges to our highly networked society. Individuals, corporations and Governments are increasingly concerned about the costs and threats imposed on them by cyber crime, cyber espionage and cyber warfare. Within the field of cyber defense, situational awareness is particularly prominent. It relates to science, technology and practice of perception, comprehension and projection of events and entities in the relevant environment—in our case cyber space. Situational Awareness is difficult to achieve in such fields as aviation, plant operation or emergency management. It is even more difficult—and poorly understood—in the relatively young field of cyber defense where the entities and events are so unlike the more conventional physical phenomena.