The Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience Ontology (SC2RO) maps the cyber resilience landscape for individuals. It identifies cyber resources, vulnerabilities, threats, responses and harms associated with and specific to individual citizen’s cyber functionings.
Cyber resilience is the ability to maintain positive functioning and adaptation in the context of adverse cyber incidents, which can be technical, socio-technical, natural, and man-made.
Resources in this ontology are framed much broader than what is typically referred to as Assets, and they include physical resources - such as computing devices, digital resources - such as data and software, as well as individual resources - such as personal endowments, identity, and social capital. Resources enable individuals to achieve specific cyber functionings.
Vulnerabilities are weaknesses in Resources that can be exploited by Threats. The ontology currently identifies three types of vulnerabilities: individual, physical, and digital. Individual vulnerabilities are situations and attributes of individuals that not only expose them to threats but also that can be exploited and compromised by specific threats. Physical vulnerabilities are weaknesses associated with the materiality of cyber resources. Digital vulnerabilities are weaknesses associated with software, data and networking / connectivity resources.
Threats are potential adverse incidents and “unfreedoms” that limit individuals’ cyber capabilities and functionings. The framing of these in the ontology is informed by the personal, social, and environmental conversion factors that constitute individuals’ personal utilization function.
Responses, which are also called Countermeasures, are framed around the four resilience phases of prepare, absorb, recover, and adapt. The Prepare phase is the nominal baseline cyber functioning of individuals. The Absorb phase is triggered by the onset of an adverse cyber incident to limit the immediate impact of the adversity. The Recover phase is towards restoration of lost cyber functioning. The Adapt phase is the positive adaptation from the cyber incident through evolution and enhanced cyber functioning.
Harms are the realized impacts of the unmitigated threats whose ultimate effect on individuals is to reduce their cyber capabilities and hamper their cyber functionings.
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The Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience Ontology (SC2RO) maps the cyber resilience landscape for individuals. It identifies cyber resources, vulnerabilities, threats, responses and harms associated with and specific to individual citizen's cyber functionings.