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Vol. 1 · Ed. 2026
CyberGlossary
Entry № 267

Crown Jewels Analysis

Crown Jewels Analysis とは何ですか?

Crown Jewels AnalysisA MITRE-popularized methodology that identifies the small set of mission-critical assets whose loss would unacceptably harm the organization, then concentrates protection, monitoring, and IR investment there.


Crown Jewels Analysis (CJA) is a methodology formalized by MITRE in the mid-2010s and incorporated into the U.S. DoD's mission-assurance practice. The premise: most organizations cannot harden everything to the same level, and most adversaries don't care about everything either. CJA produces a ranked, justified list of the assets — datasets, systems, applications, identities, processes — whose compromise or loss would produce unacceptable mission, business, regulatory, or reputational impact, and the dependencies (network paths, credentials, supporting services) that lead to them. The output drives where to concentrate defense-in-depth controls (segmentation, monitoring tier, IR tabletop priority, cyber-insurance scoping, recovery RTO/RPO), what threat models to take most seriously, and which paths in attack-graph terms to disrupt first. CJA is often a precursor to attack-path analysis, MITRE ATT&CK technique prioritization, and adversary-emulation scoping. It is also a common requirement of cyber-insurance underwriting and of regulator-led resilience reviews (DORA, NIS2, U.S. DOD CMMC).

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    A bank's CJA identifies the payments-clearing system, the customer-master database, and the production HSM as crown jewels and routes their telemetry to a dedicated SOC tier.

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    After a CJA, the IR tabletop scenarios for the next year focus on ransomware against the crown-jewel ERP rather than a generic phishing breach.

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Crown Jewels Analysis とは何ですか?

A MITRE-popularized methodology that identifies the small set of mission-critical assets whose loss would unacceptably harm the organization, then concentrates protection, monitoring, and IR investment there. サイバーセキュリティの 防御と運用 カテゴリに属します。

Crown Jewels Analysis とはどういう意味ですか?

A MITRE-popularized methodology that identifies the small set of mission-critical assets whose loss would unacceptably harm the organization, then concentrates protection, monitoring, and IR investment there.

Crown Jewels Analysis はどのように機能しますか?

Crown Jewels Analysis (CJA) is a methodology formalized by MITRE in the mid-2010s and incorporated into the U.S. DoD's mission-assurance practice. The premise: most organizations cannot harden everything to the same level, and most adversaries don't care about everything either. CJA produces a ranked, justified list of the assets — datasets, systems, applications, identities, processes — whose compromise or loss would produce unacceptable mission, business, regulatory, or reputational impact, and the dependencies (network paths, credentials, supporting services) that lead to them. The output drives where to concentrate defense-in-depth controls (segmentation, monitoring tier, IR tabletop priority, cyber-insurance scoping, recovery RTO/RPO), what threat models to take most seriously, and which paths in attack-graph terms to disrupt first. CJA is often a precursor to attack-path analysis, MITRE ATT&CK technique prioritization, and adversary-emulation scoping. It is also a common requirement of cyber-insurance underwriting and of regulator-led resilience reviews (DORA, NIS2, U.S. DOD CMMC).

Crown Jewels Analysis からどのように防御しますか?

Crown Jewels Analysis に対する防御は通常、上記の定義で述べたとおり、技術的統制と運用上の実践を組み合わせます。

Crown Jewels Analysis の別名は何ですか?

一般的な別名: CJA, Mission-critical asset analysis。

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