Alerting (AL)

Alerting (AL), suit 04 of 9: the care chain from the resident to the care circle, with this suit highlighted.

Taxonomies › Care assistant › Alerting

Suit 04 of 9 · 7 threats, 4 of them life-safety · prefix AL

Alerting threats break the last metre: the alert exists but no person sees it, the wrong person sees it, or a fake one arrives.

Scope: Getting an alert to a person who acts on it.

Table: Alerting (AL), 7 threats with their mitigation principles and design measures. The full text is in the PDF and Excel downloads on the care assistant taxonomy overview page.

Text version: every entry on this page is in the PDF and Excel downloads on the overview page, where it can be searched and copied.

The threats

  • EOC-AL-A Delivered to a Phone, Not a Person †
  • EOC-AL-K Nobody on Call †
  • EOC-AL-Q Silent Snooze †
  • EOC-AL-J Unmeasured Delay †
  • EOC-AL-10 Wrong Recipient
  • EOC-AL-9 Counterfeit Alarm
  • EOC-AL-8 Lock-Screen Disclosure

† marks a life-safety entry: one whose failure can leave someone without help when they need it.

Where this suit touches others

  • Interpretation and Alerting: interpretation decides that something is an emergency; alerting decides whether a person ever finds out.
  • Alerting and Response: alerting ends when a person acknowledges; response is what that person, or a service, then does.

STRIDE, LINDDUN, CAPEC and CWE

Of the 7 entries here, STRIDE fits 2 cleanly and 5 only loosely. LINDDUN fits 2 cleanly, and has no category for 5. CAPEC 3.9 describes 1 directly and has nothing for 6. CWE 5.0 names the weakness directly for 1, has only a broader weakness for 1 and has nothing for 5. All four frameworks miss 4 of them: no clean STRIDE or LINDDUN prompt, and no direct CAPEC or CWE match. The table below gives the mapping entry by entry, with the names of the CAPEC patterns and CWE weaknesses; what the mapping shows across the whole taxonomy is in Mapping the Care Assistant Threat Taxonomy to STRIDE, LINDDUN, CAPEC and CWE. The Excel, SKOS and STIX downloads carry the same mapping as text.

Table: STRIDE, LINDDUN, CAPEC and CWE mapping for Alerting (AL), 7 threats, with each entry's STRIDE and LINDDUN categories and fit, CAPEC 3.9 patterns and CWE 5.0 weaknesses. The full mapping is in the Excel, SKOS and STIX downloads on the care assistant taxonomy overview page.

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