Glossary
Key terms used throughout OSA.
- Actor
- A prototypical business role. OSA patterns visualize responsibility sets assignable to roles in given setups.
- Source: OSA
- Architecture
- A set of design artifacts describing components, relationships, and principles governing design and evolution over time.
- Source: OSA
- Security
- IT system's ability to protect confidentiality and integrity of processed data, provide availability, and accountability for transactions.
- Source: OSA
- Security Architecture
- Design artifacts describing how security controls are positioned and relate to overall IT architecture.
- Source: OSA
- Security Control
- A technical countermeasure, organizational setup or process maintaining IT system security properties.
- Source: OSA
- Security Incident
- A violation or imminent threat of violation of computer security policies or acceptable use policies.
- Source: NIST
- Issue
- The gap between desired state and current state when an authority demands closure of that gap.
- Source: OSA
- Security Event
- A notable occurrence at a particular point in time, typically scanned for patterns indicating security violations.
- Source: Wikipedia