An Ontological Approach to Computer System Security

Authors:
Ju An Wang;Michael M. Guo;Jairo Camargo
Affiliations:
School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA;School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA;School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA
Venue:
Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Computer system security relies on different aspects of a computer system such as security policies, security mechanisms, threat analysis, and countermeasures. This paper provides an ontological approach to capturing and utilizing the fundamental attributes of those key components to determine the effects of vulnerabilities on a system's security. Our ontology for vulnerability management (OVM) has been populated with all vulnerabilities in NVD (see http://nvd.nist.gov/scap.cfm) with additional inference rules and knowledge discovery mechanisms so that it may provide a promising pathway to make security automation program (NIST Version 1.0, 2007) more effective and reliable.