A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks
December 2010 • Technical Note
James J. Cebula, Lisa R. Young
In this report, the authors present a taxonomy of operational cyber security risks and its harmonization with other risk and security activities.
Publisher:
Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-2010-TN-028
Subjects
Abstract
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.