The Ontology of Metrics for Security Evaluation and Decision Support in SIEM Systems

Analysis of computer network security is a serious challenge. Many security metrics has been proposed for this purpose, but their effective use for rapid and reliable security evaluation and generation of countermeasures in SIEM systems remains an important problem. The use of ontologies for security information representation in SIEM systems contributes largely to the success of this task. However, most of works on ontological security data representation does not take into account the ontologies of security metrics. This paper proposes a new approach on using security metrics which is based on their ontological representation and serves for comprehensive security evaluation and subsequent countermeasure generation. The novelty of the proposed approach is that ontology of security metrics is viewed as a core component of a countermeasure decision support system. The proposed solutions are tested on a specific example.