We present a publicly available, OWL-based ontology of information security which models
assets, threats, vulnerabilities, countermeasures and their relations. The ontology can be …

The use of ontologies to represent knowledge provides us with organization, communication
and reusability. The concepts and relations managed by any scientific community need to be …

The paper introduces and advocates an ontological semantic approach to information
security. Both the approach and its resources, the ontology and lexicons, are borrowed from …

Software systems have become highly distributed and complex involving independent
components working together towards achieving systems' goals. Meanwhile, security attacks …

Unified and formal knowledge models of the information security domain are fundamental
requirements for supporting and enhancing existing risk management approaches. This …

A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Management Page 1 Computers & Security,
17 (1998) 303-307 A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Management Thomas …

Security risk management is a knowledge-intensive procedure that requires monitoring and
capturing relevant information that can assist in making the right decision by managers. In …

Today IT security professionals are working hard to keep a high security standard for their
information systems. In doing so, they often face similar problems, for which they have to …

In this paper we describe the Unified Cybersecurity Ontology (UCO) that is intended to
support information integration and cyber situational awareness in cybersecurity systems …

The Internet is a public network, which is open and used by all—also for communicating
private information.“But private information should be secured!”, I hear you say. Yes. But …