Assuring Mission Success in Complex Environments. Part 1: Background and Evolution from OCTAVE

Abstract

Well, when I look back at the original ideas behind OCTAVE, it was really to helpenable people within organizations to perform assessments and to understand the current securityposture and how to improve that.I think what we were trying to initially look at was what we call local optimization, which is whereyou focus on maybe a subset of all your issues, let's say security, in a system or in an organization.Well, as soon as you start partnering with other organizations, your security is only as good astheir security. If your partners are not doing the same thing, the overall mission or the overallobjectives you're trying to achieve might not be achieved because not of something that you'redoing, but something that one of your partners, collaborators, or customers are not taking due carewith from a security perspective.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
AD1147314

Entities

People

  • Chris Alberts
  • Julia H. Allen

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Contractors
  • Copyrights
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Indicators
  • Information Security
  • Life Cycles
  • Optimization
  • Personnel Management
  • Risk
  • Risk Management
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Supply Chain
  • Universities
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Business

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  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Educational Psychology
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).