An Ontological Approach to Risk and Security Modeling in ArchiMate

ArchiMate is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language to support the description, analysis, and visualization of architecture within and across business domains. ArchiMate is a technical standard from The Open Group. It is based on concepts from the now-superseded IEEE 1471 standard.

The “Risk and Security Overlay” of the ArchiMate language is an attempt to introduce risk and security modeling in ArchiMate language.

Through an ontological approach, we propose redesigning the risk and security aspects of this overlay to improve ArchiMate’s risk management modeling capabilities.

This website supplements our publications in this matter and serves as official documentation.

Citing this work

To cite this proposal, use:

Oliveira, Í., Sales, T.P., Almeida, J.P.A. et al. Ontology-based security modeling in ArchiMate. Softw Syst Model (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-024-01149-1

Authors

• Ítalo Oliveira¹²
• Tiago Prince Sales²
• João Paulo A. Almeida³
• Riccardo Baratella⁴
• Mattia Fumagalli¹
• Giancarlo Guizzardi²

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1. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Unibz), Bolzano, Italy. ↩ ↩²

2. Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services (SCS), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil. ↩

4. Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia, Storia (DAFIST), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. ↩