Title
Engineering Security Agreements Against External Insider Threat
Abstract
Companies are increasingly engaging in complex inter-organisational networks of business and trading partners, service and managed security providers to run their operations. Therefore, it is now common to outsource critical business processes and to completely move IT resources to the custody of third parties. Such extended enterprises create individuals who are neither completely insiders nor outsiders of a company, requiring new solutions to mitigate the security threat they cause. This paper improves the method introduced in Franqueira et al. 2012 for the analysis of such threat to support negotiation of security agreements in B2B contracts. The method, illustrated via a manufacturer-retailer example, has three main ingredients: modelling to scope the analysis and to identify external insider roles, access matrix to obtain need-to-know requirements, and reverse-engineering of security best practices to analyse both pose-threat and enforce-security perspectives of external insider roles. The paper also proposes future research directions to overcome challenges identified.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.4018/irmj.2013100104
IRMJ
Keywords
Field
DocType
b2b contract,security best practice,external insider role,critical business process,security threat,security agreement,engineering security agreements,complex inter-organisational network,managed security provider,it resource,access matrix,external insider threat
Security convergence,Economics,Security through obscurity,Computer security,Insider threat,Security service,Insider,Cloud computing security,Security information and event management,Threat
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
4
1040-1628
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
26
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Virginia N. L. Franqueira112212.87
André van Cleeff2606.47
Pascal van Eck317219.59
Roel J. Wieringa427220.18