ONTOLOGY EDITING TOOL FOR INFORMATION SECURITY AND HUMAN FACTORS EXPERTS

Currently ontology development is facilitated by generic ontology editing tools which accommodate ontology experts, and not necessarily those individuals whose knowledge requires capture. Furthermore the process of knowledge capture is time consuming, error prone and requires appropriate technical skills. We propose a graphical editing tool for ontology development which simplifies knowledge capture. To demonstrate the tool's potential this paper explores the need for information security and human factors experts to capture their related knowledge in a dedicated ontology. Population of such an ontology would provide supporting information to enable organisations to make more well informed security policy decisions. Tailoring the tool for information security and human factors experts allows them to produce ontology content without being familiar with ontology construction and technologies. The tool is intuitive, requires no ontology component configuration, and provides mechanisms to guide users and reduce the potential for errors. Our tool allows information security domain experts to develop and extend the ontology, and organisations to tailor ontology content to their own requirements.