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A usable functional interface between ontology and security integrating related information is needed for security engineering as well as creating secure systems. That in turn necessitates ontologizing security of information and networks to start with and then standardization. Having involved in the fields of semantic technology and information assurance, I have strived to facilitate establishing an interface between them and for this reason SIN Conference Series I created included all interest areas of semantics, metadata and ontology aspects. In a keynote talk and its proceedings paper in SIN 2014, I took up this subject and drove to the point that generic ontology for security of information and networks is timely, and it should better be standardized. In the present paper I investigate through examples where available to drive the point that the standard upper ontology for security may be developed through community sourcing and then standardized through competent agencies.
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Elçi, A. (2016). Generating a Standardized Upper Ontology for Security of Information and Networks. In: Senthilkumar, M., Ramasamy, V., Sheen, S., Veeramani, C., Bonato, A., Batten, L. (eds) Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 412. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0251-9_4
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