OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) TC

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  • 1.  RE: [cti] CTI interest in NIEM?

    Posted 08-22-2023 05:56



    Hi,


    +1 for outreach and assistance from my side. 


    Most of the time, lack of awareness is the main issue. What can I do with your technology, and how it supports mine (use case driven)? Have we ever had the works presented to the TCs of interest? Possibly many members do not even know the existence
    of NIEM (and other relevant works).



    Intersecting the two works is not something challenging. Yes, some objects are repetitive, but I don't see a significant issue. It's all about being willing to approve this recommendation and add it as best practice on the documentation/website
    for support.


    The fairest point came from Keven. If ontologies were introduced, technologically speaking, integration would be almost seamless, with the need to add only some extra semantics for equivalences and reasoning. That's for powerful analytics/context;
    otherwise, traditional programmatic approaches can still work.

    Best,
    Vasileios Mavroeidis



    On Aug 21, 2023 23:25, "MATES, JEFFREY F CIV USAF AFOSI AFOSI/DC3/XT" <jeffrey.mates@us.af.mil> wrote:



    Iâm very interested in providing outreach and assistance.  Reading through their Cyber Domain I think we could do a look of good helping to normalize this across both standards, and it also might help flesh out some parts of the Incident that we missed.

    Ultimately the final format doesnât matter, what matters is that the moving between these should be seamless and the lessons learned in a community can help others when confronted with similar problems.
     


    //SIGNED//
     
    Jeffrey Mates, Civ DC3/TSD
    Computer Scientist
    Technical Solutions Development
    jeffrey.mates@us.af.mil


     


    From: cti@lists.oasis-open.org <cti@lists.oasis-open.org> On Behalf Of
    Jim Cabral
    Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 10:59 PM
    To: Duncan Sparrell <duncan@sfractal.com>; cti@lists.oasis-open.org
    Subject: [URL Verdict: Neutral][Non-DoD Source] Re: [cti] CTI interest in NIEM?


     


    Firstly, I am hopeful that Duncan and others can help discover and continue to evangelize opportunities for CTI and NIEM to collaborate.


     


    That said, I join Duncan in my concerns that others in the CTI community have not yet embraced NIEM as a model for exchanging information between and among domains. As a long,-term proponent of NIEM and related
    standards for cross-domsin information sharing, we welcome feedback as to whether this gap is due to unfamiliarity with the NIEM or whether it is to due to specific design choices we in the NIEM technical or business committees have made.


     


    Regardless of whether the CTI community embraces NIEM as a standard for sharing information across domains, we request the CTI stakeholders provide feedback to NIEM regarding any gaps in our current approach


     


    Thank you,


     



    __


    Jim Cabral



    502-640-4970




     








    From: "duncan sfractal.com" <duncan@sfractal.com>
    Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 3:54 PM
    To: cti@lists.oasis-open.org
    Subject: [cti] CTI interest in NIEM?


     



    Is there interest in getting NIEM to adopt STIX terminology at a minimum and maybe STIX âin totoâ?
     
    Background:
    NIEM is an OASIS Open Project ( http://niem.github.io/ ) to standardize work the US Government has been doing for several decades ( https://www.niem.gov/ ) for standardizing information
    exchange within and between federal agencies, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial governments, as well as with private industry. NIEM is quite prevalent in the courts, law enforcement, and legal profession, as well as in select industries (ag agriculture, emergency
    management, transportation, miliary, â) where the USG had needs for standardizing information exchange. For example, when you get pulled over for a speeding ticket, it's NIEM standards that allow the local police to check what other tickets you got, whether
    your car was stolen, whether you are wanted for other crimes etc. And itâs unfortunately also how the insurance company knows you got a ticket so they can hike your rates
    ð .
     
    For whatever reason, the âcyber domainâ does not have much support (I believe Iâve been sole attendee with any interest). NIEM sort of acknowledges STIX1.2, as a way to exchange threat information. It will take text/PRâs/editing/etc to actually have NIEM
    use the current version of STIX.
     
    Personally I think this is important, especially as more and more cyber cases end up in court; as well as cyber becomes more important to more industries. However at NIEM meetings, I feel like that Greek guy forever pushing the boulder up hill.
     
    Is anyone else interested in participating in NIEM cyber activities? Without more support, Iâm thinking dropping my participation in that effort.

     


    -- 
    Duncan Sparrell
    sFractal Consulting
    iPhone, iTypo, iApologize
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  • 2.  Re: [cti] CTI interest in NIEM?

    Posted 08-22-2023 12:52
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    I think the question is going to be around the goal of the effort. If the effort surrounds a mapping or ontological exercise to/from NIEM, I am sure no one in the TC would be against that work product, it could be a great resource if someone wanted to take on that work, they can fill their boots. However, if the goal would be to adopt NIEM inside STIX itself, I think that would be a very, very long hill to climb and you will encounter a lot of resistance â it would be a lot of work and more importantly a huge industry disruption for questionable benefit to the end consumer.   --  Jason Keirstead  Vice President of Collective Threat Defense jason.keirstead@cyware.com   From: cti@lists.oasis-open.org <cti@lists.oasis-open.org> on behalf of Vasileios Mavroeidis <vasileim@ifi.uio.no> Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 2:56 AM To: MATES, JEFFREY F CIV USAF AFOSI AFOSI/DC3/XT <jeffrey.mates@us.af.mil> Cc: 'Jim Cabral' <Jim.Cabral@infotrack.com>, 'Duncan Sparrell' <duncan@sfractal.com>, 'cti@lists.oasis-open.org' <cti@lists.oasis-open.org> Subject: RE: [cti] CTI interest in NIEM? Hi,   +1 for outreach and assistance from my side.    Most of the time, lack of awareness is the main issue. What can I do with your technology, and how it supports mine (use case driven)? Have we ever had the works presented to the TCs of interest? Possibly many members do not even know the existence of NIEM (and other relevant works).   Intersecting the two works is not something challenging. Yes, some objects are repetitive, but I don't see a significant issue. It's all about being willing to approve this recommendation and add it as best practice on the documentation/website for support.   The fairest point came from Keven. If ontologies were introduced, technologically speaking, integration would be almost seamless, with the need to add only some extra semantics for equivalences and reasoning. That's for powerful analytics/context; otherwise, traditional programmatic approaches can still work.   Best, Vasileios Mavroeidis   On Aug 21, 2023 23:25, "MATES, JEFFREY F CIV USAF AFOSI AFOSI/DC3/XT" <jeffrey.mates@us.af.mil> wrote: Iâm very interested in providing outreach and assistance.  Reading through their Cyber Domain I think we could do a look of good helping to normalize this across both standards, and it also might help flesh out some parts of the Incident that we missed. Ultimately the final format doesnât matter, what matters is that the moving between these should be seamless and the lessons learned in a community can help others when confronted with similar problems.   //SIGNED//   Jeffrey Mates, Civ DC3/TSD Computer Scientist Technical Solutions Development jeffrey.mates@us.af.mil   From: cti@lists.oasis-open.org <cti@lists.oasis-open.org> On Behalf Of Jim Cabral Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 10:59 PM To: Duncan Sparrell <duncan@sfractal.com>; cti@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [URL Verdict: Neutral][Non-DoD Source] Re: [cti] CTI interest in NIEM?   Firstly, I am hopeful that Duncan and others can help discover and continue to evangelize opportunities for CTI and NIEM to collaborate.   That said, I join Duncan in my concerns that others in the CTI community have not yet embraced NIEM as a model for exchanging information between and among domains. As a long,-term proponent of NIEM and related standards for cross-domsin information sharing, we welcome feedback as to whether this gap is due to unfamiliarity with the NIEM or whether it is to due to specific design choices we in the NIEM technical or business committees have made.   Regardless of whether the CTI community embraces NIEM as a standard for sharing information across domains, we request the CTI stakeholders provide feedback to NIEM regarding any gaps in our current approach   Thank you,   __ Jim Cabral 502-640-4970   From: "duncan sfractal.com" <duncan@sfractal.com> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 3:54 PM To: cti@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [cti] CTI interest in NIEM?   Is there interest in getting NIEM to adopt STIX terminology at a minimum and maybe STIX âin totoâ?   Background: NIEM is an OASIS Open Project ( http://niem.github.io/ ) to standardize work the US Government has been doing for several decades ( https://www.niem.gov/ ) for standardizing information exchange within and between federal agencies, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial governments, as well as with private industry. NIEM is quite prevalent in the courts, law enforcement, and legal profession, as well as in select industries (ag agriculture, emergency management, transportation, miliary, â) where the USG had needs for standardizing information exchange. For example, when you get pulled over for a speeding ticket, it's NIEM standards that allow the local police to check what other tickets you got, whether your car was stolen, whether you are wanted for other crimes etc. And itâs unfortunately also how the insurance company knows you got a ticket so they can hike your rates