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• immediately after the end of the mission (e.g. during debriefing),
• debriefing session in briefing hall/in headquarters,
• at any time by querying/processing factual data repositories gathered by
sensors/IT systems,
• at any time based on the open source intelligence (OSINT – Open Source
Intelligence) data acquired from civilian system (e.g. NASK), which can considered
a source of information about incidents from the cyberspace.
E. Methodology of information gathering
Direct benefits of applying proposed methodology are as follows:
• common structure for data retrieved from various sources of information
• identification of structural incompleteness within particular observation
sheet, in order to assure updated information handling in the future,
• preliminary validation of the collected information about incidents
in order to:
▷ protect from improper values (and e.g. dates out of range),
▷ account for inertia and physics of the registered phenomenas/processes
(e.g. the time required to power on/off a device, initiate/terminate given
process),
▷ process the source information to structure it into the form required
for later storage in a database, e.g.: divide all the information into types
(digital, text, graphical, other).
Regarding the structure for data from various sources of information, data
from respective reports and notifications will be parameterized and classified into
particular blocks/sections in observation sheet. Thanks to such ordering it will
be possible to assign attributes to data contained in particular blocks/sections
of the observation sheet:
• status of the mission concerned by the collected observation (date, type
of the mission, cryptonym, code name, composition of the unit, final assessment
of the mission, other),
• type of incident (good practice, negative experience),
• every single incident should be described related to its location (geographical
coordinates with the highest possible accuracy, according to different
notations: WGS – World Geodetic System, NATO, ...), time (operational
time, calendar time),
• does the information directly influences soldiers’ health/life (yes/no),
• information about the mission (currently executed, mission planned to
execution, accomplished mission),
• is information confirmed/not confirmed by other soldier participating
in a given mission,
• information status: up-to-date/out-of-date (specify this date),