The disabled defence on the IDPS asset is not logically coherent #67
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The following issue was discovered when working on #64, #65, and #47.
The
IDPS
asset uses two important defences:effectiveness
, which determines how well the IDPS performs its task of restricting malicious activity from occurring on the associatedApplications
.disabled
, which it inherits from theApplication
asset which it expands, that is used to represent whether or not anApplication
is present. The lack ofApplication
in the model is seen as reducing the ability of an attacker to launch attacks as a particular attack vector is not available to them.However, in the case of an
IDPS
its absence should actually make it more likely for the attacker to succeed. Given the current MAL framework that lacks a not operator we cannot have a defence lead to enabling an attack step. As such, the current behaviour of thedisabled
defence onIDPS
assets is illogical and should generally be avoided.If possible the
disabled
defence should be hidden in visualisation tools, this is why it was tagged with@Override @hidden
in b676fe7.No functional workaround was discovered in the discussions around it and the decision was made to defer a proper solution to a later time.
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