scholarly journals USE OF ONTOLOGIES IN MAPPING OF INFORMATION SECURITY REQUIREMENTS / ONTOLOGIJOS NAUDOJIMAS INFORMACIJOS SAUGUMO REIKALAVIMAMS SUSIET

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
Simona Ramanauskaitė ◽  
Eglė Radvilė ◽  
Dmitrij Olifer
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security Standards

A large amount of different security documents, standards, guidelines and best practices requires to ensure mapping between different security requirements. As the result of mapping, security requirements of different standards can coincide or require to be amended or harmonised. This is the reason why it is so difficult to map more than two different security documents. Ontologies can be used to solve this issue. The article offers a review of different security documents and ontology types as well as investigates possible use of ontologies for mapping of security standards. Article in Lithuanian Santrauka Esant daugybei informacijos saugą reglamentuojančių dokumentų, gairių ir standartų, aktualu tarpusavyje susieti juose apibrėžtus saugumo reikalavimus. Skirtinguose saugos dokumentuose aprašyti saugumo reikalavimai gali ne tik sutapti arba papildyti vienas kitą, bet ir prieštarauti vienas kitam. Tai labai apsunkina daugiau negu dviejų informacijos saugą reglamentuojančių dokumentų susiejimą. Vienas būdų susieti daugiau negu du saugą reglamentuojančius dokumentus galėtų būti ontologijos naudojimas. Straipsnyje apžvelgiami šiuo metu pagrindiniai saugą reglamentuojantys standartai, egzistuojančios saugumo ontologijos, išnagrinėta galimybė naudoti ontologiją saugą reglamentuojančių dokumentų reikalavimams susieti ir galimybę tokį susiejimą atvaizduoti grafais.

scholarly journals Defining the Minimum Security Baseline in a Multiple Security Standards Environment by Graph Theory Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitrij Olifer ◽  
Nikolaj Goranin ◽  
Antanas Cenys ◽  
Arnas Kaceniauskas ◽  
Justinas Janulevicius
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Vertex Cover ◽  
Graph Isomorphism ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security Requirement ◽  
Minimum Requirements ◽  
As Graph ◽  
Security Standards ◽  
Previous Step

One of the best ways to protect an organization’s assets is to implement security requirements defined by different standards or best practices. However, such an approach is complicated and requires specific skills and knowledge. In case an organization applies multiple security standards, several problems can arise related to overlapping or conflicting security requirements, increased expenses on security requirement implementation, and convenience of security requirement monitoring. To solve these issues, we propose using graph theory techniques. Graphs allow the presentation of security requirements of a standard as graph vertexes and edges between vertexes, and would show the relations between different requirements. A vertex cover algorithm is proposed for minimum security requirement identification, while graph isomorphism is proposed for comparing existing organization controls against a set of minimum requirements identified in the previous step.

scholarly journals Security Audit Logging in Microservice-Based Systems: Survey of Architecture Patterns

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Alexander Barabanov ◽  
◽  
Denis Makrushin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Audit Process ◽  
Internal Event ◽  
High Level ◽  
Security Standards

Objective. Service-oriented architecture increases technical abilities for attacker to move laterally and maintain multiple pivot points inside of compromised environment. Microservice-based infrastructure brings more challenges for security architect related to internal event visibility and monitoring. Properly implemented logging and audit approach is a baseline for security operations and incident management. The aim of this study is to provide helpful resource to application and product security architects, software and operation engineers on existing architecture patterns to implement trustworthy logging and audit process in microservice-based environments. Method. In this paper, we conduct information security threats modeling and a systematic review of major electronic databases and libraries, security standards and presentations at the major security conferences as well as architecture whitepapers of industry vendors with relevant products. Results and practical relevance. In this work based on research papers and major security conferences presentations analysis, we identified industry best practices in logging audit patterns and its applicability depending on environment characteristic. We provided threat modeling for typical architecture pattern of logging system and identified 8 information security threats. We provided security threat mitigation and as a result of 11 high-level security requirements for audit logging system were identified. High-level security requirements can be used by application security architect in order to secure their products

A Mark-Up Language for the Specification of Information Security Governance Requirements

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anirban Sengupta ◽  
Chandan Mazumdar
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Information Security Governance ◽  
Version 2.0 ◽  
Enterprise Security ◽  
And Control

As enterprises become dependent on information systems, the need for effective Information Security Governance (ISG) assumes significance. ISG manages risks relating to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and its supporting processes and systems, in an enterprise. Even a medium-sized enterprise contains a huge collection of information and other assets. Moreover, risks evolve rapidly in today’s connected digital world. Therefore, the proper implementation of ISG requires automation of the various monitoring, analysis, and control processes. This can be best achieved by representing information security requirements of an enterprise in a standard, structured format. This paper presents such a structured format in the form of Enterprise Security Requirement Markup Language (ESRML) Version 2.0. It is an XML-based language that considers the elements of ISO 27002 best practices.

ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF METHODS AND MEANS OF DESTRUCTING INFORMATION FROM MAGNETIC MEDIA AS AN ELEMENT OF MODERN INFORMATION SECURITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Semenenko ◽  
Y. Dobrovolsky ◽  
V. Koverga ◽  
O. Sechenev
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Magnetic Media ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Analysis Of Means ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
Modern Information

Evolution of security technologies shows that only the concept of an integrated approach to information security can provide modern information security requirements. A comprehensive approach means the complex development of all the necessary methods and means of information protection. Today, the information exchange and information systems in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine have certain means and approaches to the destruction of information, but each of them has different estimates of the effectiveness of their use, as well as different cost of their purchase and use. Therefore, the main purpose of the article is to carry out a comprehensive analysis of means of destroying confidential information of methods of its destruction in order to formulate practical recommendations for choosing the most effective and economically feasible for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The perfection of methods and means of destroying information from magnetic media is an important element of modern information security. The results of the analysis carried out in the article are the disclosure of the main features of modern devices for the elimination of magnetic records, as well as the ability to formulate a list of basic requirements for modern devices for the destruction of information from magnetic media. Today, technical means of information security, in particular, the elimination of information on magnetic media, are constantly being improved, absorbing the latest advances in modern security technologies. Their model range, which takes into account the diversity of customer requirements, such as the type of energy supply, the level of mobility, reliability and operating conditions, expands. All this determines the relevance of research topics in this direction in the future.

scholarly journals Model and Technique for Abonent Address Masking in Cyberspace

2020 ◽  
pp. 2-13
Author(s):  
Vadim Kuchurov ◽  
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Roman Maximov ◽  
Roman Sherstobitov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Kolmogorov Equation ◽  
Basic Set ◽  
Technical Solutions

Regulators charge to counter information security threats against the structural and functional characteristics of the information system to ensure the information security requirements. These requirements include information system structure and composition, information technologies and functioning characteristics, physical and logical, functional and technological interconnections between information system segments. They order false components of information system emulation as a basic step of protection, as well as information technologies hiding, information system configuration management and its switching to predetermined configuration that provides a protection. However that steps are not included into basic set and they protection aims are reached with compensative assets, formalizing and implementing inhibitory orders and set of organizational and technical measures on threat source. The purpose of research – to disclose and to state main ways of search of new technical solutions for structure masking of distributed information systems in cyberspace implementing masking traffic taking into account the requirements for the timeliness of information exchange. The method of research – operations research in the face of uncertainty, the application of the theory of Markov processes and Kolmogorov equation for solving the problem of increasing the efficiency of masking exchange. The result of research – finding the probabilistic and temporal characteristics of the functioning process of the data transmission network when applying technical solutions for information systems masking in cyberspace. The results obtained make it possible to explicitly implement protection measures aimed at forming persistent false stereotypes among violators about information systems and control processes implemented with their help.

Formalizing information security requirements

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Gerber ◽  
Rossouw von Solms ◽  
Paul Overbeek
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Security Requirements

A Mark-Up Language for the Specification of Information Security Governance Requirements

2013 ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Anirban Sengupta ◽  
Chandan Mazumdar
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security Requirement ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Information Security Governance ◽  
Version 2.0 ◽  
Enterprise Security ◽  
And Control

As enterprises become dependent on information systems, the need for effective Information Security Governance (ISG) assumes significance. ISG manages risks relating to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and its supporting processes and systems, in an enterprise. Even a medium-sized enterprise contains a huge collection of information and other assets. Moreover, risks evolve rapidly in today’s connected digital world. Therefore, the proper implementation of ISG requires automation of the various monitoring, analysis, and control processes. This can be best achieved by representing information security requirements of an enterprise in a standard, structured format. This paper presents such a structured format in the form of Enterprise Security Requirement Markup Language (ESRML) Version 2.0. It is an XML-based language that considers the elements of ISO 27002 best practices.

Enterprise Information Security Policies, Standards, and Procedures

2012 ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Syed Irfan Nabi ◽  
Ghmlas Saleh Al-Ghmlas ◽  
Khaled Alghathbar
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Security Standards ◽  
National Information

This chapter explores enterprise information security policies, standards, and procedures. It examines the existing resources, analyses the available options, and offers recommendations to the CIOs and other people that have to make decisions about policies, standards, and procedures to ensure information security in their enterprise. Additionally, the need, requirements, and audience for different types of security documents are scrutinized. Their mutual relationship is examined, and the association among them is illustrated with a diagram supplemented by an example to bring about better comprehension of these documents. It is important to know the sources and organizations that make standards and guidelines. Therefore, the major ones are discussed. This research involved finding all of the relevant documents and analyzing the reasons for the ever-increasing number of newer ones and the revisions of the existing ones. Various well-known and established international, as well as national, information security standards and guidelines are listed to provide a pertinent collection from which to choose. The distinguishing factors and common attributes are researched to make it easier to classify these documents. Finally, the crux of the chapter involves recommending appropriate information security standards and guidelines based on the sector to which an organization belongs. An analysis of the role played by these standards and guidelines in the effectiveness of information security is also discussed, along with some caveats. It is important for practitioners and researchers to know what is available, who the key players are, and the potential issues with information security standards and guidelines; they are all concisely presented in this chapter.

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