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Txnnes Brekne Cross Reference
Txnnes Brekne Cross Reference - masQuerade


Masquerades of one thing as another.

Masquerades attack the basic trust mechanisms underlying protection.

Cause/Mechanism:
  • Threat Profiles
  • Attack Methods
  • Defense Methods
    Process:
  • Prevention
  • Detection
  • Reaction
    Impact:
  • Integrity
  • Availability
  • Confidential
  • Use Control
  • Other:
  • Risk Management
  • Database Description

    Domain:
  • Physical
  • Informational
  • Systemic
    Sophistication:
  • Theoretical
  • Demonstrated
  • Widespread
  • Perspectives:
  • Management
  • Policy
  • Standards
  • Procedures
  • Documentation
  • Audit
  • Testing
  • Technical Safeguards
  • Personnel
  • Incident Handling
  • Legal
  • Physical
  • Awareness
  • Training
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Brekne's Mechanistic:
  • Input
  • Output
  • Storage
  • Processing
  • Transmission
  • Brekne's Causal:
  • Accidental
  • Malicious
  • Brekne's Method:
  • Leakage
  • Masquerade
  • Denial
  • Corruption
  • Usage
  • Mental

  • [Attack1 - errors and omissions]
    [Attack13 - system maintenance]
    [Attack14 - testing]
    [Attack16 - Trojan horses]
    [Attack18 - fictitious people]
    [Attack22 - spoofing and masquerading]
    [Attack25 - insertion in transit]
    [Attack34 - undocumented or unknown function exploitation]
    [Attack39 - modeling mismatches]
    [Attack40 - simultaneous access exploitations]
    [Attack41 - implied trust exploitation]
    [Attack43 - emergency procedure exploitation]
    [Attack46 - multiple error inducement]
    [Attack47 - viruses]
    [Attack58 - content-based attacks]
    [Attack61 - hangup hooking]
    [Attack62 - call forwarding fakery]
    [Attack73 - distributed coordinated attacks]
    [Attack74 - man-in-the-middle]
    [Attack84 - below-threshold attacks]
    [Attack86 - inappropriate defaults]
    [Attack87 - piggybacking]
    [Attack90 - strategic or tactical deceptions]
    [Attack94 - repudiation]