Authors:
Ines Meriah
1
;
Latifa Ben Arfa Rabai
1
and
Ridha khedri
2
Affiliations:
1
Université de Tunis, Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, SMART Laboratory, Tunis, Tunisia
;
2
Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Keyword(s):
Information Security, Security Dimension, OWL Security Ontology, Multi-Dimensional Security Ontology, Dimensional View.
Abstract:
To deal with problems related to Information Security (IS) and to support requirements activities and architectural design, a full conceptualisation of the IS domain is essential. Several works proposed IS ontologies capturing partial views of the IS domain. These ontologies suffer from incompleteness of concepts, lack of readability, portability, and dependability to a specific IS sub-domain. Following a rigorous and repeatable process, we systematically developed a comprehensive IS ontology. This process includes four steps: concept extraction, XML generation, OWL generation and dimensional view extraction. The obtained ontology is multidimensional, portable and supports ontology modularization. It is presented under XML format and OWL format. It comprises 2660 security concepts and 331 security dimensions.