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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ivan Matthew Milman, Austin, TX (US);
Martin Oberhofer, Boeblingen, DE;
Sushain Pandit, Austin, TX (US);
Calvin Stacy Powers, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Gap analysis is performed on security capabilities of a computer system compared to a desired or targeted security model according to one or more security requirement by providing a data structure of security capabilities of a computer system under analysis, wherein each capability is classified in a formal security capability reference model with a mean having a set of attributes and a goal; determining the security capabilities of the deployed system-under-analysis; matching the security capabilities of the deployed system-under-analysis with the security capabilities defined in the data structure; determining one or more gaps in security capabilities between the deployed system and a security reference model goal; and displaying the gaps to a user in a report.