Technopedia: Hardware Security
This section provides Technopedia: Hardware Security field descriptions for the following:
Field |
Description |
HW Category |
Hardware Category (Taxonomy) |
HW Subcategory |
Hardware Subcategory (Taxonomy) |
HW Vendor Category |
Product category per vendor |
HW Manufacturer |
Hardware Manufacturer |
HW Manufacturer ID |
Hardware manufacturer identification number |
HW Product |
Hardware product name |
HW Product ID |
Hardware product identification number |
HW Model |
Device model name/number |
HW Model ID |
Hardware model identification number |
HW Supported OS |
List of supported operating systems that can be run on the device |
HW Max CPU sockets |
Maximum number of CPU sockets available in the machine |
Field |
Description |
HW Profile |
Profile (or form factor) of the device |
Hardware Lifecycle (Calculated)
Field |
Description |
HW Is Supported? (calc.) |
BDNA guideline to customers, as to the support status for a product |
HW Supported Reason (calc.) |
Reason determining the product support status. I.e. published date, calculated date |
HW EOL Year (calc.) |
Calculated hardware end-of-life year. Calculated date is based on Technopedia hardware product published dates |
HW EOL Quarter (calc.) |
Calculated hardware end-of-life quarter-in-year. Calculated date is based on Technopedia hardware product published dates |
HW EOL Month (calc.) |
Calculated hardware end-of-life month-in-year. Calculated date is based on Technopedia hardware product published dates |
HW EOL Date (calc.) |
Calculated hardware end-of-life date. Calculated date is based on Technopedia hardware product published dates |
Field |
Description |
HW CPE Definition |
The title/name of the hardware product for which the CPE URI is assigned. This refers to 'ns1:title’ column in CPE Dictionary (which is published by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology, NIST) |
HW CPE Part |
Part component of CPE URI |
HW CPE Vendor |
Vendor component of CPE URI |
HW CPE Product |
Product component of CPE URI |
HW CPE Edition |
Edition component of CPE URI |
HW CPE URI |
The generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) for Common Platform Enumeration (CPE), which includes a formal name format, a method for checking names against a system, and a description format for binding |
HW CPE Max CVSS Score |
Maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) value amongst all CVE entries that are associated with this CPE |
HW CPE Max CVSS Severity |
Maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Severity amongst all CVE entries that are associated with this CPE |
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Field |
Description |
HW CVE CVSS Score |
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities which is adopted in The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) |
HW CVE CVSS Severity |
The order of severity based on CVSS score: High (CVSS score of 7.0 - 10.0), Medium (CVSS score of 4.0 - 6.9), Low (CVSS score of 0.0 - 3.9) |
Field |
Description |
PRI Is Private? |
Indicates whether the data being analyzed is private or not |
PRI Type |
Indicates the type of private data, options are: Proprietary item or Modified item |
PRI Table |
Name of the table that has private data. |
PRI Attribute |
Name of the attribute that has been edited. |
Field |
Description |
HW Count |
Hardware Count |
HW CVE Instance Count |
Count of Hardware CVE Vulnerability (product level) |
HW Max CVSS Score |
Maximum CVSS Vulnerability Score of the associated CPE_URI. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities which is adopted in The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) |