ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the reasons for creating an applied ontology for cyberwarfare and outlines what such an ontology would look like. A cyberwarfare ontology would systematically organize and allow inference on all data relevant for the conduct of offensive and defensive cyberwarfare operations. An ontology for cyberwarfare will have some distinctive entities when compared with other ontologies, such as a categorization of information-theoretic entities and the key notion of functioning, and impaired functioning, of information systems. The chapter discusses how one would develop an ontology for cyberwarfare: this would amount in practice to a systematic way of collecting, storing, and then utilizing all the data that would be relevant to the conduct of cyberwarfare, as well as for cybersecurity in general. To an extent, some of the classification of entities and their relationships can be taken from existing upper-level ontologies and the relatively few existing military ontologies.
