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European Cybersecurity Atlas

Security Management and Governance

Governance and management activities, methodologies, processes and tools aimed at the preservation of confidentiality, integrity and availability of information as well as other properties such as authenticity, accountability and non-repudiation.

The subdomains for this knowledge domain are:

  • Risk management, including modeling, assessment, analysis and mitigation
  • Processes and procedures to ensure device end-of-life security and privacy (e.g. IT waste management and recycling)
  • Threats and vulnerabilities modelling
  • Attack modelling, techniques, and countermeasures (e.g. adversary machine learning)
  • Managerial aspects concerning information security
  • Assessment of information security effectiveness and degrees of control
  • Identification of the impact of hardware and software changes on the management of Information Security
  • Standards for Information Security
  • Governance aspects of incident management, disaster recovery, business continuity
  • Compliance with information security and privacy policies, procedures, and regulations
  • Economic aspects of the cybersecurity ecosystem
  • Privacy impact assessment and risk management
  • Capability maturity models (e.g. assessment of capacities and capabilities)
  • Modelling of cross-sectoral interdependencies and cascading effects
  • Techniques to ensure business continuity/disaster recovery