Overview#
Attack Effort (or
Access Complexity) is to account for the combination of
time, knowledge,
resources, and potential consequences to an
Attacker when conducting a specific
attack.
Appears the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) refers to this as "Exploitability Metrics"
Often there are CPU efforts required within the Attack Effort that may exceed the Computational Hardness Assumption
Attack Effort is generally higher for Advanced Persistent Threats and Targeted Attacks than Opportunistic Attack
Attack Effort is defined in
Risk Taxonomy (O-RT) as
Threat Capability (
TCap) as the probable level of force that a threat agent is capable of applying against an
asset.
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