The Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification or CAPEC is a catalog of known cyber security attack patterns to be used by cyber security professionals to prevent attacks.
Originally released in 2007 by the
United States Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the Federal government of the United States, U.S. United States federal executive departments, federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the I ...
, the project began as an initiative of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communication, and it is now supported by
Mitre Corporation and governed under a board of corporate representatives.
References
External links
MITRE CAPEC
Classification systems
Computer standards
Mitre Corporation
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