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We first consider network security services and then review threats, vulnerabilities and failure modes. This review is based on standard texts, using well-known concepts, categorizations, and methods, e.g. risk analysis using asset-based threat profiles and vulnerability profiles (attributes). The review is used to construct a framework which is then used to define an extensible ontology for network security attacks. We present a conceptualization of this ontology in figure 1.
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Simmonds, A., Sandilands, P., van Ekert, L. (2004). An Ontology for Network Security Attacks. In: Manandhar, S., Austin, J., Desai, U., Oyanagi, Y., Talukder, A.K. (eds) Applied Computing. AACC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30176-9_41
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