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Extending the Cybersecurity Digital Thread with XForms

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Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

Abstract

The digital thread for cybersecurity enables security technologies and data sources to interoperate. It consists of an integrated collection of languages, taxonomies, and metrics represented using the Extensible Markup Language (XML). A gap in the cybersecurity digital thread is the lack of good software for tailoring the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53 security controls and exporting the result in a structured XML format. An application built using XForms demonstrated success in providing specialized user interface for tailoring security controls, enforcing NIST SP 800-53 tailoring guidelines, and in generating XML content suitable for automated processing by other cybersecurity tools.
Proceedings Title
Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
Conference Dates
August 11-14, 2015
Conference Location
Washington, DC
Conference Title
Balisage: The Markup Conference

Keywords

cybersecurity, XForms, security control, tailored baseline, overlay, SCAP, Security Content Automation Protocol, National Vulnerability Database, NVD, Small Arcane Nontrivial Dataset, Industrial Control System, NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-82

Citation

Lubell, J. (2015), Extending the Cybersecurity Digital Thread with XForms, Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, Washington, DC, [online], https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol15.Lubell01 (Accessed October 3, 2024)

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Created August 3, 2015, Updated November 10, 2018