8.1.0 Self Organizing vs Standards‐Based System‐Security Strategy Conflict or Synergy

Self organizing systems-of-systems characterizes the operational architecture of the anti-system adversarial community – from guerillas and terrorists to organized computer crime, high-seas pirates, grass-roots vigilantes and independent system hackers. These anti-system communities are loosely coupled multi-agent systems bound only by shared learning loops of tools, techniques and targets. Contemporary system security strategy is failing against this intelligent operational evolution. The need for next generation security strategies is fueling early action. One avenue is crafting new standards and new acquisition requirements – another avenue is probing security structures that mirror the adversarial architectures of self-organizing systems-of-systems. The former sounds like a centralized approach, the later a decentralized approach. Is there conflict, compatibility or synergy between these two approaches?