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Journal Articles International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design Year : 2015

Validation of IS Security Policies featuring Authorisation Constraints

Jérémy Milhau
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Muhammad Nafees Qamar
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Régine Laleau
Mohamed-Amine Labiadh
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Abstract

Designing a security policy for an information system (IS) is a non-trivial task. Variants of the RBAC model can be used to express such policies as access-control rules associated to constraints. In this paper, we advocate that currently available tools do not take sufficiently into account the functional description of the application and its impact on authorisation constraints and dynamic aspects of security. We suggest translating both security and functional models into a formal language, such as B, whose analysis and animation tools will help validate a larger set of security scenarios. We describe how various kinds of constraints can be expressed and animated in this context. We also present a tool support which performs this translation and report on a case study where animation and testing techniques were used to validate the security policy of a medical emergency information system.
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hal-00976108 , version 1 (09-04-2014)

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Yves Ledru, Akram Idani, Jérémy Milhau, Muhammad Nafees Qamar, Régine Laleau, et al.. Validation of IS Security Policies featuring Authorisation Constraints. International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design, 2015, 6 (1), pp.24-46. ⟨hal-00976108⟩
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