In this post we are going to start exploring the terminology of FAIR. It makes sense to me that we explore FAIR through the use of an example scenario, much like the FAIR Introduction (link to pdf) does.
We are going to use a web site for our scenario. We will develop the scenario more and more as we go along, but the following are the initial characteristics:
- The web server is an up-to-date version of Apache.
- The information stored on the server is public.
- The web server is exposed to the internet.
- The bandwidth available is significant.
We are going to take things in a little different order than presented in the Introduction to FAIR. The first thing we are going to look at is asset. From the introduction:
Any data, device, or other component of the environment that supports information-related activities, which can be illicitly accessed, used, disclosed, altered, destroyed, and/or stolen, resulting in loss.
With this definition in mind, what asset or assets are present that we need to be worried about?
Is the information in this case an asset? No, because we've classified the information as public. Three things come to mind as assets with the information we have so far, the physical hardware Apache is running on, the Apache web server itself and the available bandwidth.
The hardware is an asset because someone might want to steal it or run their own software on it. The web server is an asset because someone might want to use it for their own purposes. The bandwidth is an asset because, again, someone may want to use that bandwidth, that we pay for, for their own purposes.
Pretty basic and straightforward. Next time we will look at "What's a threat?"
As always, the comments are open. Feel free to share your thoughts.
-Kevin
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