Challenges for Risk and Security Modelling in Enterprise Architecture

Abstract

From our experience cooperating with the Norwegian Armed Forces, we outline two interconnected challenges for modelling risk and security in an enterprise architecture: (1) modelling what is protected and why it is protected with sufficient detail whilst being simple enough to facilitate analysis; and (2) establishing automated support for analysing and reasoning about the security models, something we deem crucial to exploit the full potential of an enterprise security architecture. In addition, we sketch out our approach to tackle these challenges and outline our future direction of work.