Ranking Attacks Based on Vulnerability Analysis
Ju An Wang, Hao Henry Wang, Minzhe Guo, Linfeng Zhou, Jairo Camargo · 2010
Now that multiple-known attacks can affect one software product at the same time, it is necessary to rank and prioritize those attacks in order to establish a better defense. The purpose of this paper is to provide a set of security metrics to rank attacks based on vulnerability analysis. The vulnerability information is retrieved from a vulnerability management ontology, which integrates commonly used standards like CVE, CWE, CVSS, and CAPEC. Among the benefits of ranking attacks through the method proposed here are: a more effective mitigation or prevention of attack patterns against systems, a better foundation to test software products, and a better understanding of vulnerabilities and attacks.