machinetag.json

{
  "namespace": "cycat",
  "expanded": " Cybersecurity Resource Catalogue",
  "description": "Taxonomy used by CyCAT, the Cybersecurity Resource Catalogue, to categorize the namespaces it supports and uses.",
  "version": 3,
  "refs": [
    "https://www.cycat.org/"
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "predicate": "type",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "tool",
          "expanded": "Tool",
          "description": "Open source or proprietary tool used in cybersecurity."
        },
        {
          "value": "playbook",
          "expanded": "Playbook",
          "description": "Playbook, such as a defined set of rules with one or more actions triggered by different events to respond to, orchestrate or automate cybersecurity related actions."
        },
        {
          "value": "taxonomy",
          "expanded": "Taxonomy",
          "description": "Cybersecurity taxonomy is a set of labels used to classify (in both terms - arrange in classes or/and design to national classification) cybersecurity related information."
        },
        {
          "value": "rule",
          "expanded": "Rule",
          "description": "Detection rule or set of detection rules used in the cybersecurity field. Rulesets can be in different formats for (N/L)IDS/SIEM (such as Snort, Suricata, Zeek, SIGMA or YARA) or any other tool capable of parsing them."
        },
        {
          "value": "notebook",
          "expanded": "Notebook",
          "description": "Interactive document to code, experiment, train or visualize cybersecurity-related information. A notebook can be transcribed in a format such as Jupyter Notebooks, Apache Zeppelin, Pluton or Google Colab."
        },
        {
          "value": "vulnerability",
          "expanded": "Vulnerability",
          "description": "Public or non-public information about a security vulnerability in a specific software, hardware or service."
        },
        {
          "value": "proof-of-concept",
          "expanded": "Proof-of-concept",
          "description": "Code to validate a known vulnerability."
        },
        {
          "value": "fingerprint",
          "expanded": "Fingerprint",
          "description": "Code to uniquely identify specific cybersecurity-relevant patterns. Fingerprints can be expressed in different formats such as ja3, ja3s, hassh, jarm or favicon-mmh3."
        },
        {
          "value": "mitigation",
          "expanded": "Mitigation",
          "description": "Mitigating control to prevent unwanted activity from happening, like a specific configuration of the operating system/tools or an implementation policy."
        },
        {
          "value": "dataset",
          "expanded": "Dataset",
          "description": "Dataset for validation of detections and tool stacks,"
        },
        {
          "value": "dataformat",
          "expanded": "Data format",
          "description": "Data structure and format to describe elements in the cybersecurity field."
        },
        {
          "value": "configuration",
          "expanded": "Configuration",
          "description": "A configuration describes the state or environment conditions of a tool."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "scope",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "identify",
          "expanded": "Identify"
        },
        {
          "value": "protect",
          "expanded": "Protect"
        },
        {
          "value": "detect",
          "expanded": "Detect"
        },
        {
          "value": "respond",
          "expanded": "Respond"
        },
        {
          "value": "recover",
          "expanded": "Recover"
        },
        {
          "value": "exploit",
          "expanded": "Exploit"
        },
        {
          "value": "investigate",
          "expanded": "Investigate"
        },
        {
          "value": "train",
          "expanded": "Train"
        },
        {
          "value": "reset",
          "expanded": "Reset"
        },
        {
          "value": "test",
          "expanded": "Test"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "predicates": [
    {
      "value": "type",
      "expanded": "Type",
      "description": "Type of entry in the catalogue."
    },
    {
      "value": "scope",
      "expanded": "Scope",
      "description": "Scope of usage for the entry in the catalogue."
    }
  ]
}