A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks

This report presents a taxonomy of operational cyber security risks that attempts to identify and organize the sources of operational cyber security risk into four classes: (1) actions of people, (2) systems and technology failures, (3) failed internal processes, and (4) external events. Each class is broken down into subclasses, which are described by their elements. This report discusses the harmonization of the taxonomy with other risk and security activities, particularly those described by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publications, and the CERT Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation (OCTAVE) method.

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Authors

James J. Cebula

Lisa R. Young

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Security and Survivability

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2010-TN-028
December 2010

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SEI:

Cebula, James; & Young, Lisa. A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-028). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn028.cfm

IEEE:

J. Cebula, and L. Young, "A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2010-TN-028, 2010. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn028.cfm

APA:

Cebula, J., & Young, L. (2010). A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-028). Retrieved May 25, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn028.cfm

CHI:

Cebula, James, and Lisa Young. A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-028). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn028.cfm

MLA:

Cebula, J., & Young, L. 2010. A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2010-TN-028). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/10tn028.cfm

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