Security Ontology for Annotating Resources

Abstract

Annotation with security-related metadata enables discovery of resources that meet security requirements. this paper presents the NRL Security Ontology, which complements existing ontologies in other domains that focus on annotation of functional aspects of resources. Types of security information that could be described include mechanisms, protocols, objectives, algorithms, and credentials in various levels of detail and specificity. The NRL Ontology is more comprehensive and better organized than existing security ontologies. It is capable of representing more types of security statements and can be applied to any electronic resource. The class hierarchy of the ontology makes it both easy to use and intuitive to extend. We applied this ontology to a Service Oriented Architecture to annotate security aspects of Web service descriptions and queries. A refined matching algorithm was developed to perform requirement-capability matchmaking that takes into account not only the ontology concepts, but also the properties of the concepts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 2005
Accession Number
ADA437938

Entities

People

  • Anya Kim
  • Jim Luo
  • Myong Kang

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Authentication
  • Birds
  • Classification
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Cryptography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Information
  • Hierarchies
  • Metadata
  • Notation
  • Ontologies
  • Security Protocols
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Standards
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics