The last domain captures cyber-driven threats to & support for system stability & resilience over time, modes of response & their various features, as well as propensities for sustainability and strategies for sustainable development.
High-level Ontology for Cybersecurity & Sustainability domain.
Source: Choucri, Fairman, Agarwal (2021).
Ontology: Cybersecurity & Sustainability
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DIMENSION 1: SYSTEM STATE
1. CYBER & SOCIAL ECOSYSTEMS
- Actors & Capabilities
- Internet Layers
- People
- Information
- Logical
- Physical
- International Levels
- Individual & Groups
- State & Non-State
- International System
- Global System
- Overarching Global System
- Human & Social
- Environmental
- Cyberspace
- Intersection Among Systems
2. ACTIVITIES & OPERATIONS
- Cyber-IR System Cybersecurity
- Access
- Encryption
- Risk
- Sustainability & Security Provision
- Cyber-IR System Sustainability
- Loads
- Capabilities
- Changes
- Others
- Operation & Services
- Others
3. SUPPORT SYSTEMS
- Monitoring Vulnerability Status
- Cybersecurity Supports
- Management Capability
- Information & Communication
4. RISK & MANAGEMENT
- Authority Base
- Risk Assessment
- Practice & Policies
- Implementation Mechanisms
DIMENSION 2: SYSTEM PROBLEMS
1. PROBLEM TYPE
- Physical Damage
- Intrusion & Damages
- Cyber Attacks
- Social Damages
- Others
- Threat to System Operations
- System Overload
- Capability Constraints
- Mounting Demands
- Threats to Life Support
- Management & Regulations
- Threat Incidence – Real & Cyber
- Threat Actor & Agent
- Tool & Target
- Scope & Scale
- Analysis & Assessment
2. PROBLEM TOOLS & TARGET
- Natural Systems
- Cyber Systems
- Dynamic Attack
- Malicious Code
- Bots & Botnets
- Cyber Incident
- Human Systems
- Interaction Among Systems
3. THREAT ACTORS
- Individual & Groups
- States & Non-States
- International & Global
- Known & Unknowns
4. DAMAGE & IMPACTS
- Damages to Cyber Systems
- Exploiting Vulnerabilities
- Attack & Impacts
- Damages
- Others
- Burdens on Sustainability
- Levels of Human Activity
- Layers of the Internet
- Loads Over Capabilities
- Life Supports
- Expansion of Vulnerabilities
- Loss of Resilience
DIMENSION 3: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY RESPONSES
1. TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES
- Technology Innovation & Organization
- Privacy Protections
- Joint Private-Public St
- Resilient System Architecture
- Computer Network Defense Analysis
- System Safety Architecture
- Innovations for Sustainability
- Monitoring Systems
- Information Protection & Management/li>
- Computer Network Defense
- Access
- Infrastructure
- Manpower
- Software
2. CAPACITY BUILDING
- Skill & Personnel
- Technology “Hard” & “Soft”
- Machine Learning & Evolution
- Artificial Intelligence
- Simulation & Forecasting
- Other
- Technology Readiness Level
- Security & Sustainability Practice
3. RISK ASSESSMENT
- Technical Operations & Standards
- Threat Detection & Mitigation
- System-wide Assessments
- Technical Resilience
4. BEHAVIOR IMPERATIVES
- Deterrence & Defense
- System Improvements
- Coordination & Cooperation
- Recovery Mechanisms
DIMENSION 4: SOCIO-ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESPONSES
1. INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES
- Information Security Systems
- Assurance Measures
- Policy Measures
- Voluntary Measures
- Others
- National Sustainability Measures
- Market Mechanisms
- Legal & Regulatory Methods
2. CAPACITY BUILDING
- Situation Awareness
- Asset Management
- Data & Information Assessment
- Monitoring Performance
- Cyber Incident Response
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Sustainability of Capacity
- Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
3. SYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY
- System Assessment & Audits
- Integrated Risk Management
- Vulnerability Management & Institutional Response
- Others
4. POLICY IMPERATIVES
- Response Focus
- Insurance & Assessment Measures
- Security Provision & Policy
- Continuity of Operations
- Access Management Plans
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Legal & Regulatory Strategies
- Resilience Strategy