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Vol. 1 · Ed. 2026
CyberGlossary
Entry № 267

Crown Jewels Analysis

Что такое Crown Jewels Analysis?

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).

Примеры

  1. 01

    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.

  2. 02

    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.

Частые вопросы

Что такое Crown Jewels Analysis?

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. Относится к категории Защита и операции в кибербезопасности.

Что означает Crown Jewels Analysis?

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.

Как работает Crown Jewels Analysis?

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).

Как защититься от Crown Jewels Analysis?

Защита от Crown Jewels Analysis обычно сочетает технические меры и операционные практики, как описано в определении выше.

Какие есть другие названия Crown Jewels Analysis?

Распространённые альтернативные названия: CJA, Mission-critical asset analysis.

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