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Ontology – Cyber-IR

Cyber-IR Ontology

Cyber-IR captures the multiple pressures and threat that can result in social damage & fundamental destruction.

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DIMENSION 1: SYSTEM STATE

  1. CYBER-IR SYSTEM
    1. Internet-Layers
      • Physical Layer
      • Logical Layer
      • Information Layer
      • People & User Layer
    2. International Relations (IR) – Levels
      • Levels of Analysis
      • Cross Level Actors & Entities
      • Cross Level Activities
      • Others
    3. Supply Chain
      • Contents & Components
      • Sources, Locations & Owners
      • Trade & Transactions
      • Uncertainties, Problems, Barriers
    4. Standards
      • Formal
      • Informal
      • Evolving
      • Contingent
  2. INTERSECTION OF LAYERS & LEVELS
    1. Types of Intersection
      • Features & Salience
      • Infrastructure & Communication
      • Management & Governance
      • Jurisdictions & Locations
    2. Internet Institutions & Decision Entities
      • Innovators, Technologists & Protocol Design
      • Operators, Routing & Supports
      • Internet System Providers
      • Certificate Authorities & Other
    3. International Relations (IR) Institutions & Decision Entities
      • State Actors & Institutions
      • International & Regional Entities
      • Market, Industry, Business & Non-State Actors
      • Other
    4. Interactions across Levels & Layers
      • Drivers of Interactions
      • Actors & Impacts
      • Relevance & Impacts
      • Others
  3. CYBER-IR ACTORS & ACTIVITIES
    1. Individual & Groups
      • Users
      • Content Providers
      • Supporters
      • Opponents
    2. State Users & Activities
      • Governance & Regulation
      • Defense & National Security
      • Services Provision
      • Regulation, Extraction & Other
    3. International Actors & Activities
      • Coordination of Cooperation
      • Supports for Institutions & Missions
      • Policy Development
      • Outreach & Other
    4. Innovations and Innovators
      • Private, Public Mixed
      • Physical System Innovations
      • Knowledge Innovations
      • Institutional Innovations
  4. GLOBAL ACTORS & ACTIVITIES
    1. Anonymous
      • Private
      • Public
      • Mixed
      • Focus
    2. Formal & Informal
      • Institutional
      • Sporadic
      • Known
      • Unknown
    3. Illegitimate
      • Organized
      • Sporadic
      • Known
      • Unknown
    4. Properties
      • Focus
      • Funding
      • Scale & Scope
      • Other
DIMENSION 2: PROBLEMS FOR CYBER-IR SYSTEMS

  1. THREATS TO LAYERS
    1. Physical Systems & Operations
      • Cables, Wires & infrastructure
      • Network Systems
      • ICT Attacks Vectors
      • Supply Chain, Industrial Trade Threats
    2. Cyber Security Threats & Transgressions
      • Malware & Malicious Code
      • Bypass-Security Modes
      • Overt Conduct to Damage
      • Other
    3. Threats & Damage
      • To Information
      • To Capabilities
      • To Intents
      • Other
    4. Threats to People & Users
      • Information & Communication Threats
      • Unauthorized Access
      • Misinformation
      • Other
  2. THREATS TO LEVELS
    1. Individual & Groups
      • Threats to Cyber Access
      • Identity Loss
      • Threats to Privacy
      • Other
    2. State Level Targets & Damages
      • Critical Infrastructure
      • Defense Infrastructure
      • Industry & Manufacturing
      • Other
    3. International Disruptions
      • Terrestrial
      • Undersea
      • Space
      • Other
    4. Global Risks & Disruptions
      • Social & Political
      • Economic & Financial
      • Environmental
      • Other
  3. THREATS AT INTERSECTION OF LAYERS AND LEVELS
    1. Physical
      • Level of Analysis
      • Layers of Internet
      • For Profit
      • Not for Profit
    2. Computational
      • Content Targets
      • Application Targets
      • Innovation Targets
      • Other
    3. Operational
      • Institutional
      • Law & Regulation
      • Managerial
      • Procedural
    4. Policy
      • Regulations
      • Type & Focus
      • Targets
      • Compliance
  4. LOSS OF VALUE – LAYERS & LEVELS
    1. Productivity, Time & Money
      • Information Loss
      • Loss of National/Business Secrets
      • Loss of Value
      • Other
    2. Physical System
      • Infrastructure
      • Process Interruptions
      • Operational damages
      • Other
    3. Transactions & Investments
      • Reputation Loss
      • Financial Loss
      • Regulatory Loss
      • Insurance Loss
    4. Loss of Legitimacy
      • Loss of Trust
      • Loss of Legal Status
      • Loss of Protections
      • Other
DIMENSION 3: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY RESPONSES

  1. LAYERS OF INTERNET
    1. Physical Layer
      • Protections Modes
      • Improved Maintenance
      • Strengthening Operations
      • Customizing Responses
    2. Supply Chain Structure & Management
      • Review & Assess
      • Improving Legal Protections
      • Upgrading Management & Operations
      • Review of Insurance
    3. Network Security
      • Enhanced Authorization
      • Security at Control Points
      • Security of Exchange Points
      • System Resilience
    4. Integrated Risk Management
      • Prevention
      • Risk Assessment
      • Early Warning Systems
      • Capability & Response
  2. LEVELS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    1. Security of Critical Infrastructure
      • Land Based
      • Undersea
      • Communication Operations
      • Other
    2. Security of Human Wellbeing
      • Protections of Workforce
      • Provision of Training
      • Benefits Adequacy
      • Operational Safety
    3. Environmental Security
      • Viable Working Conditions
      • Wellbeing Protections
      • Quality of Operations
      • Other
    4. Cybersecurity
      • Training Measures
      • Information Updates
      • Restoring Security Measures
      • Other
  3. COMPUTER NETWORK DEFENSE
    1. Defense Analysis
    2. Infrastructure
    3. Data Protection
    4. Cryptography
  4. SYSTEM RESILIENCE
    1. Anticipation
    2. Adaption
    3. Innovation
    4. Organization
DIMENSION 4: SOCIO-ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESPONSES

  1. INDIVIDUALS & GROUP LEVEL
    1. Control Point Analysis
    2. Modelling & Simulation
    3. Analytics for Cyber-IR System Resilience
    4. Others
  2. STATE LEVEL
    1. Legal and Regulatory Systems
      • Communication & Cyber Law
      • Contract & Commercial Law
      • Consumer Protection Law
      • Civil & Criminal Law
    2. Capacity Building & Social Capital
      • Encryption Capability
      • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
      • Digital Rights
      • Other
    3. Business & Non-State Initiatives
      • Codes of Conduct & Best Practices
      • IT Vendors Responsibility
      • Information Sharing
      • Other
    4. Partnership & Voluntary Initiative
  3. INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES
    1. International Institutions
      • International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
      • International Court of Justice (ICJ)
      • World Trade Organization (WTO)
      • Interpol & Other
    2. Joint Cyber-IR Initiatives
      • World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
      • World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT)
      • Millennium Development Goals
      • Other
    3. Cyber International Institutions
      • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
      • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
      • Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
      • Other
    4. International Law & Norms
      • Public International Law
      • Environmental Law
      • International Cyber Law
      • Other
  4. GLOBAL RESONSES
    1. Situational Awareness
    2. Norms & Ethics
    3. Advocacy & Support Systems
    4. Other
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