Download or read book Aspect Oriented Security Hardening of UML Design Models written by Djedjiga Mouheb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively presents a novel approach to the systematic security hardening of software design models expressed in the standard UML language. It combines model-driven engineering and the aspect-oriented paradigm to integrate security practices into the early phases of the software development process. To this end, a UML profile has been developed for the specification of security hardening aspects on UML diagrams. In addition, a weaving framework, with the underlying theoretical foundations, has been designed for the systematic injection of security aspects into UML models. The work is organized as follows: chapter 1 presents an introduction to software security, model-driven engineering, UML and aspect-oriented technologies. Chapters 2 and 3 provide an overview of UML language and the main concepts of aspect-oriented modeling (AOM) respectively. Chapter 4 explores the area of model-driven architecture with a focus on model transformations. The main approaches that are adopted in the literature for security specification and hardening are presented in chapter 5. After these more general presentations, chapter 6 introduces the AOM profile for security aspects specification. Afterwards, chapter 7 details the design and the implementation of the security weaving framework, including several real-life case studies to illustrate its applicability. Chapter 8 elaborates an operational semantics for the matching/weaving processes in activity diagrams, while chapters 9 and 10 present a denotational semantics for aspect matching and weaving in executable models following a continuation-passing style. Finally, a summary and evaluation of the work presented are provided in chapter 11. The book will benefit researchers in academia and industry as well as students interested in learning about recent research advances in the field of software security engineering.

Download or read book Model Driven Aspect Oriented Software Security Hardening written by Djedjiga Mouheb and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Aspect Oriented Approach for Security Hardening written by Nadia Belblidia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer security is nowadays a very important field in computer science and security hardening of applications becomes of paramount importance. Aspect oriented programming (AOP) is a relatively new technology that allows separation of concerns such as security, synchronization, logging, etc. This increases the readability, understandability, maintainability, and security of software systems. Furthermore, AOP allows automatic injection of the crosscutting concerns into the application code using a weaving mechanism. This thesis comes to provide theoretical study of using AOP for security hardening of applications. The main contributions of this thesis are the following. We propose a comparative study of AOP approaches from a security perspective. We establish a security appropriateness analysis of AspectJ and we propose new security constructs for this language. Since aspects in AspectJ are weaved (combined) with the Java Virtual Machine Language (JVML) application code, we develop a formal semantics for the JVML. We propose also a semantics for AspectJ that formalizes the advice weaving. We develop a new AOP calculus, ?_SAOP, based on lambda calculus extended with security pointcuts. Finally, we implement three new constructs in AspectJ, namely getLocal , setLocal , and dflow , for local variable accesses and data flow analysis. In conclusion, this thesis demonstrates the relevance, importance, and appropriateness of using the AOP programming paradigm in hardening the security of applications.

Download or read book An Aspect oriented Framework for Systematic Security Hardening of Software written by Azzam Mourad and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Towards systematic software security hardening written by Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau and published by Marc-André Laverdière. This book was released on 2008 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aspect Oriented Modeling for Representing and Integrating Security Aspects in UML Models written by Srivas Venkatesh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aspect oriented Security Engineering written by Peter Amthor and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering secure systems is an error-prone process, where any decision margin potentially favors critical implementation faults. To this end, formal security models serve as an abstract basis for verifying security properties. Unfortunately, the potential for human error in engineering and analyzing such models is still considerable. This work seeks to mitigate this problem. We identified semantic gaps between security requirements, informal security policies, and security models as a major source of error. Our goal is then based on this observation: to support error-minimizing design decisions by bridging such gaps. Due to the broad range of security-critical application domains, no single modeling framework may achieve this. We therefore adopt the idea of aspect-oriented software development to tailor the formal part of a security engineering process towards security requirements of the system. Our method, termed aspect-oriented security engineering, is based on the idea of keeping each step in this process well-defined, small, and monotonic in terms of the degree of formalism. Our practical results focus on two use cases: first, model engineering for operating systems and middleware security policies; second, model analysis of runtime properties related to potential privilege escalation. We eventually combine both use cases to present a model-based reengineering approach for the access control system of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

Download or read book New Trends in Software Methodologies Tools and Techniques written by Hamido Fujita and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques, (SoMeT 09) held in Prague, Czech Republic ... from September 23rd to 25th 2009."--P. v.

Download or read book Security in Virtual Worlds 3D Webs and Immersive Environments Models for Development Interaction and Management written by Rea, Alan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although one finds much discussion and research on the features and functionality of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), the 3D Web, Immersive Environments (e.g. MMORPGs) and Virtual Worlds in both scholarly and popular publications, very little is written about the issues and techniques one must consider when creating, deploying, interacting within, and managing them securely. Security in Virtual Worlds, 3D Webs, and Immersive Environments: Models for Development, Interaction, and Management brings together the issues that managers, practitioners, and researchers must consider when planning, implementing, working within, and managing these promising virtual technologies for secure processes and initiatives. This publication discusses the uses and potential of these virtual technologies and examines secure policy formation and practices that can be applied specifically to each.

Download or read book Trust Management written by Sandro Etalle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2007, the Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, in 2007. The annual iTrust international conference looks at trust from multidisciplinary perspectives: economic, legal, psychology, philosophy, sociology as well as information technology. This volume, therefore, presents the most up-to-date research on privacy, security, and trust management.

Download or read book Mathematics and Computing written by Debdas Ghosh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses recent advances and research in applied mathematics, statistics and their applications in computing. It features papers presented at the fourth conference in the series organized at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India, on 9 – 11 January 2018 on areas of current interest, including operations research, soft computing, applied mathematical modelling, cryptology, and security analysis. The conference has emerged as a powerful forum, bringing together leading academic scientists, experts from industry, and researchers and offering a venue to discuss, interact and collaborate to stimulate the advancement of mathematics and its applications in computer science. The education of future consumers, users, producers, developers and researchers of mathematics and its applications is an important challenge in modern society, and as such, mathematics and its application in computer science are of vital significance to all spectrums of the community, as well as to mathematicians and computing professionals across different educational levels and disciplines. With contributions by leading international experts, this book motivates and creates interest among young researchers.

Download or read book Towards Systematic Software Security Hardening written by Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis, we report our research on systematic security hardening. We see how the software development industry is currently relying on highly-qualified security experts in order to manually improve existing software, which is a costly and error-prone approach. In response to this situation, we propose an approach that enables systematic security hardening by non-experts. We first study the existing methods used to remedy software vulnerabilities and use this information to determine a classification and definition for security hardening. We then see how the state of the art in secure coding, patterns and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) can be leveraged to enable systematic software security improvements, independently from the users' security expertise. We also present improvements on AOP that are necessary in order for this approach to be realizable. The first improvement, GAFlow and GDFlow, two new pointcut constructors, allow the injection of code that precedes or follows any of the points in the input set, facilitating the development of reusable patterns. The second, ExportParameter and ImportParameter, allow us to safely pass parameters between different parts of the program. Afterwards, we leverage our previous findings in the definition of SHL, the Security Hardening Language. SHL is designed in order to permit language-independent expression of security hardening plans and security hardening patterns in an aspect-oriented manner which enables refinement of patterns into concrete solutions. We then demonstrate the viability of this approach by applying it to add a security feature to the APT package acquisition and management system.

Download or read book Transactions on Aspect Oriented Software Development II written by Awais Rashid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LNCS Journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techniques in the context of all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution. The focus of the journal is on approaches for systematic identification, modularization, representation and composition of crosscutting concerns, i.e., the aspects and evaluation of such approaches and their impact on improving quality attributes of software systems. This volume, the fourth in the Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development series, presents 5 revised papers together with 2 guest editors' introductions. The papers, which focus on mapping of early aspects across the software lifecycle, and aspects and software evolution, have passed through a careful peer reviewing process, carried out by the journal's Editorial Board and expert referees.

Download or read book E business and Telecommunications written by Joaquim Filipe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the best papers of the 4th International Conference on E-business and Telecommunications (ICETE), which was held during July 28–31, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. The conference reflects a continuing effort to increase the dissemination of recent research results among professionals who work in the areas of e-business and telecommunications. ICETE is a joint international conf- ence integrating four major areas of knowledge that are divided into four cor- sponding conferences: ICE-B (International Conference on e-Business), SECRYPT (International Conference on Security and Cryptography), WINSYS (International Conference on Wireless Information Systems) and SIGMAP (International Conf- ence on Signal Processing and Multimedia). The program of this joint conference included several outstanding keynote lectures presented by internationally renowned distinguished researchers who are experts in the various ICETE areas. Their keynote speeches contributed to the ov- all quality of the program and heightened the significance of the theme of the conference. The conference topic areas define a broad spectrum in the key areas of- business and telecommunications. This wide view has made it appealing to a global audience of engineers, scientists, business practitioners and policy experts. The papers accepted and presented at the conference demonstrated a number of new and innovative solutions for e-business and telecommunication networks and systems, showing that the technical problems in these fields are challenging, related and significant.

Download or read book Managerial Perspectives on Intelligent Big Data Analytics written by Sun, Zhaohao and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing work, management, and lifestyles and are becoming disruptive technologies for healthcare, e-commerce, and web services. However, many fundamental, technological, and managerial issues for developing and applying intelligent big data analytics in these fields have yet to be addressed. Managerial Perspectives on Intelligent Big Data Analytics is a collection of innovative research that discusses the integration and application of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, digital transformation, and intelligent big data analytics from a perspective of computing, service, and management. While highlighting topics including e-commerce, machine learning, and fuzzy logic, this book is ideally designed for students, government officials, data scientists, managers, consultants, analysts, IT specialists, academicians, researchers, and industry professionals in fields that include big data, artificial intelligence, computing, and commerce.

Download or read book Graph Transformation Specifications and Nets written by Reiko Heckel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume pays tribute to the scientific achievements of Hartmut Ehrig, who passed away in March 2016. The contributions represent a selection from a symposium, held in October 2016 at TU Berlin, commemorating Hartmut’ s life and work as well as other invited papers in the areas he was active in. These areas include Graph Transformation, Model Transformation, Concurrency Theory, in particular Petri Nets, Algebraic Specification, and Category Theory in Computer Science.

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