Maturity Levels

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Maturity levels represent the completeness percentage of the cartography. It is an indicator of the remaining effort required to achieve a complete mapping, in accordance with the recommendations of the ANSSI Information System Mapping Guide.

This maturity is divided into three levels:

  • Level 1 minimum granularity, which contains the information essential to the cartography;
  • Level 2 intermediate granularity, which contains the information important to the cartography;
  • Level 3 fine granularity, which contains the information useful for managing the security of the information system.

Cartography maturity levels

Meaning of Fields Marked with a Hash (#)

Some field labels are followed by an # symbol in orange. These markers indicate that the field contributes to the calculation of the cartography maturity level, according to the relevant level:

Marker Meaning
# Field contributing to maturity level 1 — minimum granularity
## Field contributing to maturity level 2 — intermediate granularity
### Field contributing to maturity level 3 — fine granularity

Calculating the Maturity Level

An element is considered compliant when all fields marked # corresponding to the target level are filled in and the expected links with other cartography elements have been established.

An element is considered non-compliant when:

  • a field marked # is empty or not filled in (e.g., missing description or owner),
  • an expected link to another element is missing (e.g., an application not supporting any business process, a server not associated with any application).

The maturity level is calculated using the following formula:

Maturity level (%) = (Number of compliant elements / Total number of elements) 

Visual Identification of Non-Compliant Elements

In lists, non-compliant entries are highlighted in yellow, indicating that at least one field marked # has not been filled in. This allows quick identification of elements requiring particular attention in order to progress toward a complete cartography.

Compliance fields

The calculation of conformity levels for each mapping object is based on the presence of the following elements:

Object Level Required elements
Ecosystem
Entities 1 Description, security level, point of contact, at least one process
Relationships 1 Description, type
Relationships 2 Importance
Business
Macro-processes 2 Description, io_elements, security levels
Macro-processes 3 Responsible
Process 1 Description, input-output, responsible
Process 2 Macro-processes, security requirements
Activities 2 Description
Operations 1 Description
Operations 2 Actors
Operations 3 Tasks
Tasks 3 Description
Actor 2 Contact, nature, type
Information 1 Description, owner, administrator, storage
Information 2 Security Requirements, Sensitivity
Information system
Application block 2 Description, responsible, applications
Applications 1 Description, technology, type, users, process
Applications 2 Responsible, security levels
Application Services 2 Description, applications
Application Modules 2 Description
Database 1 Description, type, responsible entity, responsible person
Database 2 Security requirements
Flows 1 Description, source, destination
Administration
Zones 1 Description
Directories 1 Description, solution, administration area
Forest 1 Description, administration area
Domains 1 Description, domain controller, number of users, number of machines, inter-domain relationship
Logical
Networks 1 Description, manager, security manager, security requirements
Subnets 1 Description, address, default gateway, IP allocation type, DMZ, WiFi, VLAN
Gateways 1 Description, authentication, IP range
Connected external devices 2 Type, contacts
Switches 1 Description
Routers 1 Description
Security devices 1 Description
Clusters 1 Description, type
Logical servers 1 Description, OS, environment, IP address, applications, physical servers or clusters
VLans 1 Description
Certificates 2 Description, Type, validity start date, validity end date, applications or logical server
Physical infrastructure
Sites 1 Description
Buildings 1 Description
Bays 1 Description
Physical servers 1 Description, configuration, site, building, responsible
Workstations 1 Description, site, building
Telephones 1 Description, site, building
Storage 1 Description, site, building
Peripherals 1 Description, site, building, responsible
Physical switches 1 Description, type, site, building
Physical routers 1 Description, type, site, building
WiFi terminals 1 Description, type, site, building
Physical security devices 1 Description, type, site, building
LANs 1 Description