SPECTRA
System Profile for Effective Cyber Threat-based Risk Assessments
SPECTRA is a language for describing cyber and cyber-physical systems for the purposes of risk assessments, cybersecurity assessments and vulnerability assessments. System descriptions - including models, consist of many artifacts which are of importance for one or more lifecycle phases. For the purposes of a cybersecurity assessment, certain artifacts are of essence - for example, what are the parts of the system, how these parts are connected to convey information, what information is being conveyed, and what is the nature of the parts. Cybersecurity implies a filter for the level of technical detail, compared to other disciplines involved in the system lifecycle. Effectively extracting only the relevant cybersecurity assertions for a system description is a challenging task. The SPECTRA language - a set of conceptual entities and relations, collectively referred to as Core Assertions for cybersecurity - extends Systems Engineering languages with the means to identify the core entities and their relationships to support the task of interpreting and postprocessing a system description by automated tools and enabling cybersecurity analytics. SPECTRA facilitates ingesting normalized machine-consumable system descriptions into compliant tools for big data analytics in cybersecurity. SPECTRAs objective is to provide a standard compliance reference for acquisition contracts soliciting models for various assessments, as well as tools and services for performing such assessments automatically. This specification defines a SysML v1 profile to unambiguously identify Core Assertion in a SysML model.
- Title:
- System Profile for Effective Cyber Threat-based Risk Assessments
- Acronym:
- SPECTRA
- Version:
-
1.0 beta
- Document Status:
-
beta ⓘ
This version is made available for informational purposes. The formal version is the final approved specification and is the version that should be followed for compliance with this specification. Access to change bars between versions are available only to OMG members. - Publication Date:
- May 2025
- IPR Mode ⓘ
- Non-Assert ⓘ
Table Of Contents
- About the Specification
- Issues associated with this specification
- Specification Documents
- History
- Links
Issues associated with this specification
Issues Reported in this Specification
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Version 1.0 beta only
Specification Documents
Normative Documents
| Description | Format | URL | OMG File ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specification - Volume1 |
SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1/Volume1/PDF
|
ptc/25-04-13 | |
| Specification - Volume2 |
SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1/Volume2/PDF
|
ptc/25-04-14 | |
| Specification - Volume3 |
SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1/Volume3/PDF
|
ptc/25-04-15 |
History
In Process Versions
| Version | Adoption Date | URL |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 beta | May 2025 | https://www.omg.org/spec/SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1 |
Links
- This Document:
- https://www.omg.org/spec/SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1/About-SPECTRA
- RDF
- https://www.omg.org/spec/SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1/About-SPECTRA.rdf
- JSON-LD
- https://www.omg.org/spec/SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1/About-SPECTRA.jsonld
- Latest Document:
- https://www.omg.org/spec/SPECTRA
- RDF
- https://www.omg.org/spec/SPECTRA/About-SPECTRA.rdf
- JSON-LD
- https://www.omg.org/spec/SPECTRA/About-SPECTRA.jsonld
- Members Only
- https://www.omg.org/members/spec/SPECTRA/1.0/Beta1
- Contact:
- Send a question ⓘ