3. Ontologies

Abstract

By systematically learning from errors and the experiences of others, we can continuously improve the overall quality and adapt to the ever changing circumstances of today’s networks. This way we can also make the right choices when we face security risks - but much more important - we can invest our resources saved thereby into prevention and security improvement. Today, there is no “strong and institutionalized learning mechanism as for example usual in the flying community” [10]. One reason for this is that security knowledge is spread among information sources of very different kinds. Especially for novices it is difficult to find the “right” information to solve a particular security problem.