Security management standards as ISO/IEC 27000 series provide guidelines, which enable to evaluate the security in the company on a continuous basis. Security ontology technology is the most recommended to make links between security concepts and related standards. This paper presents on a review of ontologies based ISO/IEC 27000 series security standards and provides recommendations for professionals and researchers who need to understand or incorporate one of ISO/IEC 27000 standards features to cover their business security needs. We select and examine in details six main ontologies focusing on the usage of ISO/IEC 27000 series security standards. For each security ontology, we review and then describe it in terms of aim, security concepts and ISO 27000 features. Based on this analysis, we propose a comparison between these ontologies considering several factors to pick out their benefits and limits in order to give a set of recommendations to security decision makers helping them to select an ontology regarding their security requirements.

Security management standards as ISO/IEC 27000 series provide guidelines, which enable to evaluate the security in the company on a continuous basis. Security ontology technology is the most recommended to make links between security concepts and related standards. This paper presents on a review ...