A Taxonomy for Incidents in Communication Systems
This report deals with the construction of a taxonomy of incidents
in communication systems and is organised as
follows: the first section concerns a survey of existing taxonomies,
glossaries or controlled languages for computer security
incidents. It starts with a definition of the terms used in
this report and a discussion on the use of taxonomies as
measurement tools. The survey aims at clarifying the
importance of the definition of a common language for
exchanging and gathering information on computer security.
The second section presents the original ideas for the
taxonomy proposed with this report. The main assumption is in the
definition of the main functions a communication system should
perform and in defining a disruption as the lack of one of these
functions.
The third section is the actual presentation of the taxonomy. Some
examples of classification in this taxonomy of known computer security
incidents are added. While the overall aim of this work is at the
construction of complete taxonomy for communication systems --- including
the telecommunication services --- the examples provided in this section
will mainly deal with disruptions occurring in the Internet domain.
The fourth section presents the future work to be done for continuing
the development of the taxonomy proposed here.
FERIGATO Carlo;
GLIGORIJEVIC Sasa;
2012-12-31
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC76516
978-92-79-27153-3 (print),
978-92-79-27152-6,
1018-5593 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 25568 EN,
OP LB-NA-25568-EN-C (print),
OP LB-NA-25568-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC76516,
10.2788/60992 (print),
10.2788/60981 (online),
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