Technopedia: Hardware Security

This section provides Technopedia: Hardware Security field descriptions for the following:

Hardware

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

Hardware Profile

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

Common Platform Enumeration

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)

Private Indicators

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.

Measures

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)