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Currently, many cybersecurity solutions are being used or under development or research. However, cyber threats continue to evolve affecting the systems and services on which today’s community relies.

A test environment is imperative to determine how to enhance the security of a system, product, or component, through the generation of effective tests for analysing the system in question, its threat response capability, resulting in forensic dissemination, procedures, and proposals of improved architectures.

Most legacy specialized military systems are not directly vulnerable to cyber-attacks and malware employed in the open Internet, yet a growing use of ICT/IoT Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components and increasing connectivity may increment the likelihood of targeted attacks using the methods, if not the tools, used in cyber-attacks on the open Internet.

The increasing use of the cyber domain will require defence forces to operate in unexpected scenarios and consequently systems to function outside the environments they were designed for.

It is thus essential to understand the extent of the threat, develop infrastructure to continuously assess security against an evolving threat landscape, build resilience by guaranteeing mission assurance even with a partial compromise also using trustworthy hardware, software applications, communication protocols and trustworthy operating system.