OMG software assurance ecosystem

Publisher Summary The Object Management Group (OMG) Assurance Ecosystem involves a rigorous approach to knowledge discovery and knowledge sharing where individual knowledge units are treated as facts. Generic units of knowledge can also be represented as facts and integrated with the concrete facts about the system of interest. This uniform environment industrializes the use of knowledge in system assurance – allows description of the patterns of facts, sharing patterns as content and using automated tools to search for occurrences of patterns in the fact-based repository. The equipment used is a variation of an X-ray machine that can detect explosives by looking at the density of the items being examined. The screening machine employs Computed Axial Tomography (CAT) technology originally designed for and used in the medical field to generate images (CAT scans) of tissue density in a “slice” through the patient's body. Manual screening is limited to situations where the automated images are inconclusive. An ecosystem is a community of participants who engage in exchanges of content using an explicit shared body of knowledge. The purpose of the ecosystem is to facilitate the collection and accumulation of assurance knowledge, and to ensure its efficient and affordable delivery to the defenders of cybersystems, as well as to other stakeholders.