Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience Ontology
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. As an example, beyond the technical threats associated with the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA-triad) goals, the ontology also maps socio-technical threats as well as natural threats that hamper individuals 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 manmade.
Cyber resilience has largely been framed from the perspectives of nation-states, governments, and the private sector. This framing tends to neglect the cyber resilience role of civil society stakeholders. Further, cybersecurity frameworks, as well as resilience management frameworks have focused on building the security and resilience of critical infrastructures, information systems, critical sectors, and for-profit organizations. Such a focus makes it difficult to operationalize cyber resilience into relevant instruments and modalities for engagement and participation of civil society stakeholders as active cyber resilience agents.
This ontology is part of a project that is undertaken to enhance the resilience of citizens in smart digital futures.
The SC2RO is under active development towards the first release version (v1.0)
Version 1.0 (Planned release)
Version 0.1 (Current)
The SC2RO ontology can be used for several purposes including:
To reference the SC2RO in your research and publications, please use the following citation:
Mamello Thinyane and Debora Christine. 2021. SMART Citizen Cyber Resilience (SC2R) Ontology. In 13th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2020). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3433174.3433617
For more information on this ontology please visit the Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience project website.
Contact details are available from the project website.