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Title | ||
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A policy-based methodology for security evaluation: A Security Metric for Public Key Infrastructures |
Abstract | ||
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The security of complex infrastructures depends on many technical and organizational issues that need to be properly addressed by a security policy. For purpose of our discussion, we define a security policy as a document that states what is and what is not allowed in a system during normal operation; it consists of a set of rules that could be expressed in formal, semi-formal or very informal language. In many contexts, a system can be considered secure and trustworthy if the policy enforced by its security administrator is trustworthy too; from this standpoint it is possible to evaluate the system security by evaluating its policy. In this paper we present a policy-based methodology to formalize and compare policies, and a Security Metric to evaluate the security level that a system is able to grant. All the steps of the methodology will be illustrated with an operative approach, by directly applying it to a real case study: the semi-automated Cross Certification among Public Key Infrastructures. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.3233/JCS-2007-15201 | Journal of Computer Security |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
system security,security level,informal language,policy-based methodology,normal operation,complex infrastructure,security policy,security evaluation,security metric,security administrator,public key infrastructures,public key infrastructure | Security convergence,Security testing,Security through obscurity,Network security policy,Computer security,Computer science,Security service,Security policy,Security information and event management,Computer security model | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
15 | 2 | 0926-227X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
19 | 1.36 | 13 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valentina Casola | 1 | 402 | 47.27 |
| Antonino Mazzeo | 2 | 540 | 63.72 |
| Nicola Mazzocca | 3 | 674 | 78.37 |
| valeria vittorini | 4 | 339 | 33.14 |