SecOnto: Ontological Representation of Security Directives

IF 4.8 2区计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Computers & Security Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI:10.1016/j.cose.2024.104150

Gianpietro Castiglione, Giampaolo Bella, Daniele Francesco Santamaria

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Abstract

The current digital landscape demands robust security requirements and, for doing so, the institutions enact complex security directives to protect the citizens and the infrastructures, particularly in the European Union. These directives aim to safeguard data and harmonise security across the European region, and institutions must navigate this evolving legal landscape in order to implement and keep up-to-date the prescribed security measures.

However, understanding and implementing these directives towards full compliance can be difficult and expensive. Ontological representation can be employed to represent and operationalise such security directives, ultimately contributing to the effectiveness and efficiency of the compliance process. Ontologies in fact promote a structured approach to represent knowledge, making the applicable directives more simply understandable by humans and more readily processable by machines.

This article introduces SecOnto, a novel methodology for representing security directives as ontologies. SecOnto breaks down the process of transforming the juridical language of modern security directives into full-fledged ontologies by means of five semi-automated steps: Preprocessing, Interpretation, Structuring, Representation and Verification. Each step is described and validated by means of operational examples based upon Directive 2022/2555 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union on security of network and information systems, better known as NIS 2.

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SecOnto：安全指令的本体表示法

当前的数字环境需要强有力的安全要求，为此，各机构颁布了复杂的安全指令，以保护公民和基础设施，尤其是在欧盟。这些指令旨在保障数据安全并协调整个欧洲地区的安全，各机构必须驾驭这一不断变化的法律环境，以实施并更新规定的安全措施。然而，要理解并实施这些指令以实现完全合规可能既困难又昂贵。本体论表示法可用于表示和操作此类安全指令，最终有助于提高合规过程的有效性和效率。事实上，本体论促进了一种结构化的知识表示方法，使适用指令更容易被人类理解，也更容易被机器处理。本文介绍了 SecOnto，一种将安全指令表示为本体论的新方法。SecOnto 通过五个半自动化步骤，将现代安全指令的法律语言转化为成熟的本体：预处理、解释、结构化、表示和验证。每个步骤都通过基于欧洲议会和欧盟理事会关于网络和信息系统安全的第 2022/2555 号指令（即 NIS 2）的操作示例进行描述和验证。

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Computers & Security 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

12.40

自引率

7.10%

发文量

365

审稿时长

10.7 months

期刊介绍： Computers & Security is the most respected technical journal in the IT security field. With its high-profile editorial board and informative regular features and columns, the journal is essential reading for IT security professionals around the world. Computers & Security provides you with a unique blend of leading edge research and sound practical management advice. It is aimed at the professional involved with computer security, audit, control and data integrity in all sectors - industry, commerce and academia. Recognized worldwide as THE primary source of reference for applied research and technical expertise it is your first step to fully secure systems.