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What is the primary focus of System Security Engineering (SSE)?
What is the primary focus of System Security Engineering (SSE)?
- Assessing and mitigating security risks during the system life cycle
- Ensuring a system functions under anomalous and disruptive events associated with misuse and malicious behavior (correct)
- Identifying and responding to external threats only
- Blending technology, management principles, and operational rules
What does Physical Security primarily protect a system from?
What does Physical Security primarily protect a system from?
- Unauthorized access, misuse, and damage caused by physical actions and events (correct)
- Internal forces and user actions
- Cyber attacks and denial of service
- Anomalous and disruptive events
What do sources of potential anomalous and disruptive events (threats) include?
What do sources of potential anomalous and disruptive events (threats) include?
- Only physical actions and events
- Both external sources and internal forces (correct)
- Only external sources such as theft and denial of service attacks
- Only internal forces and user actions
What is the blended approach of System Security Engineering (SSE) designed to ensure?
What is the blended approach of System Security Engineering (SSE) designed to ensure?
What is the nature of a disruption that may be unintentional (misuse) or intentional (malicious)?
What is the nature of a disruption that may be unintentional (misuse) or intentional (malicious)?
Which core competency in INCOSE SECF is MA&S linked to?
Which core competency in INCOSE SECF is MA&S linked to?
What is the primary support of MA&S in Systems Engineering?
What is the primary support of MA&S in Systems Engineering?
In which life cycle processes can MA&S be used?
In which life cycle processes can MA&S be used?
What does MA&S help define behavior for?
What does MA&S help define behavior for?
What does digital models allow for in relation to MA&S?
What does digital models allow for in relation to MA&S?
What is the primary focus of Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation (MA&S) in the context of Systems Engineering?
What is the primary focus of Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation (MA&S) in the context of Systems Engineering?
In the Implementation Process Breakout, what is the purpose of ensuring the security aspects of a system element are realized?
In the Implementation Process Breakout, what is the purpose of ensuring the security aspects of a system element are realized?
What is a crucial aspect of managing MA&S data and quality in the implementation process?
What is a crucial aspect of managing MA&S data and quality in the implementation process?
What follows after the step of preprocessing system specifications in the MA&S process?
What follows after the step of preprocessing system specifications in the MA&S process?
What does the Implementation Process Breakout aim to identify regarding security aspects of implementation?
What does the Implementation Process Breakout aim to identify regarding security aspects of implementation?
How does the value of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) change with the complexity of the System of Interest (SoI)?
How does the value of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) change with the complexity of the System of Interest (SoI)?
What becomes more feasible and affordable with improved Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)?
What becomes more feasible and affordable with improved Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)?
How does Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) contribute to team planning and handover?
How does Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) contribute to team planning and handover?
What does Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) assist an organization and its suppliers in planning and implementing?
What does Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) assist an organization and its suppliers in planning and implementing?
What is a key benefit of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for integrated project teams?
What is a key benefit of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for integrated project teams?
How does MA&S facilitate knowledge transfer within teams?
How does MA&S facilitate knowledge transfer within teams?
What is one of the benefits of using MA&S in system design evolution?
What is one of the benefits of using MA&S in system design evolution?
In what way does MA&S support better problem specification?
In what way does MA&S support better problem specification?
What does MA&S enable in terms of change impact assessment?
What does MA&S enable in terms of change impact assessment?
How does MA&S support early V&V to reduce risk?
How does MA&S support early V&V to reduce risk?
What does NIST 800-160 Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 emphasize?
What does NIST 800-160 Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 emphasize?
What is a broader concept that includes privacy, reliability, resilience, safety, and security?
What is a broader concept that includes privacy, reliability, resilience, safety, and security?
In Loss-Driven Systems Engineering (LDSE), what does LDSE focus on?
In Loss-Driven Systems Engineering (LDSE), what does LDSE focus on?
What does SSE practitioners need skills in, according to the text?
What does SSE practitioners need skills in, according to the text?
What serves as an example of the importance of system security, according to the text?
What serves as an example of the importance of system security, according to the text?
Study Notes
- Protecting physical facilities requires multiple layers of interdependent systems, including surveillance, intrusion detection, deterrents, guards, barriers, locks, and access control. Hardware devices may employ antitampering features to ensure content authenticity or protect sensitive information.
- As our world becomes digital, both hardware and software systems are at risk for disruption or damage from digital threats. Integrating cybersecurity into systems engineering (SE) is essential through Systems Security Engineering (SSE) approaches.
- Cybersecurity refers to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets. Trustworthiness is a broader concept including privacy, reliability, resilience, safety, and security.
- SSE practitioners should possess skills in various areas, including security requirements, architecture views, threat assessment, networking, security technologies, hardware and software security, testing, and supply chain risk assessment.
- NIST 800-160 Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 emphasize the importance of integrating cybersecurity into SE processes and use the same terminology as the ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 standard for a common understanding between SE and SSE practitioners.
- Loss-Driven Systems Engineering (LDSE) unifies quality characteristics that address potential losses associated with developing and using systems. LDSE focuses on the potential losses, rather than just the desired capabilities.
- Collaborative efforts should be made among SE practitioners to address the adversities, weaknesses, defects, flaws, exposures, hazards, and vulnerabilities considered, the assets and losses considered, and the coping mechanisms considered.
- Loss-driven requirements should be integrated into the overall stakeholder and system requirements development. Architectural and design decisions should be made holistically, and risks associated with all loss-driven areas should be integrated into the project's risk management activities.
- The SE Handbook and NIST 800-160 provide examples of how the SE and SSE processes can be broken down and integrated for a better understanding of their relationships.
- The Stuxnet attack on a cyber-physical system serves as an example of the importance of system security.
- Loss-driven QCs, such as resilience, safety, security, sustainability/disposability, and availability, have significant commonality and synergy that should be leveraged.
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Test your knowledge on Systems Engineering Analyses and Methods 193, which directly links to the Core Competency 'Systems Modeling and Analysis' in the INCOSE SE Competency Framework. This quiz covers topics related to the creation and refinement of descriptive models in Business or Mission Analysis processes, supporting technical, management, and integrating competencies.
