Chapter 9. Common fact model for assurance content
Abstract
The OMG Software Assurance Ecosystem provides the infrastructure for collaborative cybersecurity in the form of standard protocols that define information exchange contracts between the participants of the ecosystem. The first step toward reaching this goal is to represent all segments of information in a common vocabulary and the corresponding format in which information can be distributed, managed, integrated, transformed, refined, and analyzed. This chapter describes the fact-oriented approach, based on normalized common vocabularies. We introduce the methodology for normalizing vocabularies and identifying discernible common elements. The elements of the common vocabulary consist of ...