Title
Ontology-Based Security Adaptation at Run-Time
Abstract
This paper describes how software is able to autonomously adapt its security mechanisms based on knowledge from security ontology. Security adaptation is required because a software’s environment changes during run-time. Thus, all security requirements cannot be defined beforehand. To achieve security adaptation, we have combined a security ontology that defines security mechanisms, security objectives, and high level security measurements. The run-time security adaptation utilises this security ontology to adapt security mechanisms or their parameters to fulfil security requirements for each environment and usage situation. The novelty of this approach comes from the utilisation of ontologies and security measurements, which makes adaptation flexible. We validate our security adaptation with a case study in a smart space environment. The case study proves that security adaptation is able to work autonomously without other user actions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/SASO.2010.11
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
environment change,security measurement,security ontology,security mechanism,security objective,security requirement,ontology-based security adaptation,security adaptation,case study,high level security measurement,run-time security adaptation,risk management,it security,knowledge based systems,ontologies,quality management,security
Security testing,Security through obscurity,Security engineering,Computer security,Software security assurance,Computer science,Security service,Cloud computing security,Security information and event management,Computer security model
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-4232-4
6
0.44
References 
Authors
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antti Evesti110211.02
Eila Ovaska216715.36