This book is a descriptive and process-oriented book on a new security risk
evaluation method, OCTAVE. OCTAVE stands for Operationally Critical
Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation(SM). An information security risk
evaluation helps organizations evaluate organizational practice, as well as the
installed technology base and to make decisions based on potential impact.
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From the CERT Coordination Center at the SEI, this book
describes OCTAVE, a new method of evaluating
information security risk.
This book is from the CERT Coordination Center and
Networked Systems Survivability (NSS) group at the SEI,
the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University. There is growing interest in OCTAVE. The DOD
Medical Health System is one early adopter. There is also
keen interest from the financial sector. The authors are
the lead developers of the OCTAVE method and are
experts in helping organizations manage their own security
risks.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
I. INTRODUCTION.
II. THE OCTAVE METHOD.
III. VARIATIONS ON THE OCTAVE APPROACH.
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Alberts & Dorofee
©2003 | Addison-Wesley Professional | 520 pp
Christopher Alberts is a senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He and Audrey Dorofee are the principal developers of OCTAVE. Before joining the SEI, Christopher was a scientist at Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, where he developed mobile robots for hazardous environments. He also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he designed information systems to support AT&T's advanced manufacturing processes.
Audrey Dorofee is a senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). She and Christopher Alberts are the principal developers of OCTAVE. Audrey previously was project lead for risk management in the Risk Program at the SEI. Prior to joining the SEI, she worked for the MITRE Corporation, supporting various projects for NASA, including Space Station software environments, user interfaces, and expert systems.
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