The DAF Digital Transformation Office and AFIT’s Digital Innovation & Integration Center of Excellence, are excited to announce the initial open-source release of the Cyber Data Schema (CDS), a foundational component for the Cyber Digital Revolution! Available now on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license, the CDS was developed to facilitate the digital transformation of cybersecurity assessment and authorization products and processes.
The CDS is a relationally joined database schema designed to represent cybersecurity content in a machine-readable and queryable format. It serves as a comprehensive collection of data elements and attributes, specifically tailored to support cybersecurity assessments and authorization content across various platforms and tools.
Key Features of the Cyber Data Schema (CDS):
Extensibility: The CDS is designed with flexibility in mind. It can easily be extended to accommodate new types of cybersecurity assessment and authorization content, ensuring that it can evolve alongside emerging cybersecurity challenges.
Interoperability: The CDS enables seamless exchange of cyber content between different organizations, systems, and tools. This feature is crucial for fostering collaboration and maintaining consistency in cybersecurity efforts across various entities.
Data Standardization/Normalization: By using minimally viable elements, the CDS standardizes and normalizes cybersecurity assessment and authorization content. This standardization is essential for reducing redundancy and ensuring that data remains consistent and comparable across different platforms.
Assessment Automation: The CDS paves the way for automation in cybersecurity assessment processes. By providing a common data model, it allows organizations to integrate their assessment toolchains, thereby streamlining the overall assessment and authorization workflow.
This initial release marks a significant milestone in our journey toward modernizing and streamlining cybersecurity processes. The open-source nature of the CDS invites the global cybersecurity community to contribute, enhance, and leverage this powerful tool to advance the field.
How can you get involved? We’re glad you asked:
Visit our GitHub repository to explore the Cyber Data Schema and join the cyber digital revolution!
Register for the upcoming “CyberDT Cross Service Working Group (XSWG) 18 Cyber Tool Modeling Hackathon” – https://forms.osi.apps.mil/r/y6PfkP2Td5, sponsored by @[Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering].
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