Cyber Crisis Management Roles – A Municipality Responsibility Case Study

Abstract

In this paper we propose a role model that can be applied in societal cyber crisis management to build safety and standard procedures during cyber security crisis. We define societal cyber crisis as the cyber crisis which affect the society in which disaster is or might be the consequence. The process to create our model started by analyzing regulations and responsibilities in Norwegian municipalities, and we used steps of a design science research (DSR) research approach to create our suggested artifact. A combination of conventional crisis management and cyber crisis management is proposed to identify the interrelationships among diverse stakeholders when managing the preparation for and reaction to a cyber crisis incident. We present a cyber incident handling role model (CIHRM) which is usable for visualizing cyber crisis in a diversity of organizations. After our model has been reviewed by the cyber security research community, we plan to implement the model when analyzing crisis management in various organizations to prepare for instructions, training and exercises at our training environment -The Norwegian Cyber Range.

Municipal Cybersecurity—A Neglected Research Area? A Survey of Current Research

“…The authors in [25] analyzed municipalities responsibilities when handling crisis in general and cyber-incidents in particular. A crisis management model and a tentative design to be tested when executing cyber training and exercises in a training environment, such as the Norwegian Cyber Range is suggested.…”