Towards System Integrity Protection with Graph-Based Policy Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Wenjuan Xu;Xinwen Zhang;Gail-Joon Ahn

  • Affiliations:
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte,;Samsung Information Systems America,;Arizona State University,

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 23rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security XXIII
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Identifying and protecting the trusted computing base (TCB) of a system is an important task, which is typically performed by designing and enforcing a system security policy and verifying whether an existing policy satisfies security objectives. To efficiently support these, an intuitive and cognitive policy analysis mechanism is desired for policy designers or security administrators due to the high complexity of policy configurations in contemporary systems. In this paper, we present a graph-based policy analysis methodology to identify TCBs with the consideration of different system applications and services. Through identifying information flows violating the integrity protection of TCBs, we also propose resolving principles to using our developed graph-based policy analysis tool.