Security-sensitive business processes are business processes that must comply with security requirements such as authorization constraints or separation or binding of duty. As such, they are difficult to design and notoriously prone to error, and a number of approaches have been proposed to formalizing and reasoning about models of such processes to detect potential vulnerabilities. In this paper, we present an approach that introduces the notion of knowledge for the formal analysis of security-sensitive business processes. We structure knowledge hierarchically, in different levels that can interact with each other in order to derive new information, which allows us to specify at different levels information about sets of critical tasks and thereby control the process execution and enforce security properties.

A Hierarchy of Knowledge for the Formal Analysis of Security-Sensitive Business Processes

MARCHESINI, Simone;VIGANO', Luca
2011-01-01

Abstract

Security-sensitive business processes are business processes that must comply with security requirements such as authorization constraints or separation or binding of duty. As such, they are difficult to design and notoriously prone to error, and a number of approaches have been proposed to formalizing and reasoning about models of such processes to detect potential vulnerabilities. In this paper, we present an approach that introduces the notion of knowledge for the formal analysis of security-sensitive business processes. We structure knowledge hierarchically, in different levels that can interact with each other in order to derive new information, which allows us to specify at different levels information about sets of critical tasks and thereby control the process execution and enforce security properties.
2011
9781457718892
Computer security; business processes; formal methods
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