Sociotechnical modelling of resilient arctic communities

The  Icelandic National Cybersecurity Strategy 2022-2037 (Government of  Iceland, 2022) has identified a diverse set of issues impacting  cybersecurity in Iceland and outlined a vision that requires  cross-disciplinary effort. Cybersecurity solutions for Iceland must be  engineered that reflect its unique resilience characteristics. We argue  that in taking a sociotechnical approach to software engineering to  identify established resilience characteristics within societies, it is  possible to model and account for cultural aspects of resilience in  engineering solutions. Toward this aim, we are considering the following  guiding questions:

• Q1:  What are the cultural values of Icelanders with respect to security?  How have these changed over time with the introduction of digital  systems?
• Q2:  Which software engineering techniques and methods can be used to  represent and ensure societal interests are present in cybersecurity  solutions?

Within  two workshops, the project is establishing a sustainable collaboration  between Icelandic and UK researchers in resilient sociotechnical  software systems engineering. The workshops are bringing together an  international, multi-disciplinary group of researchers in cybersecurity,  software engineering and the social sciences.