Quantifying security threats and their potential impacts: a case study

  • Authors:
  • Anis Ben Aissa;Robert K. Abercrombie;Frederick T. Sheldon;Ali Mili

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Sciences of Tunisia, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia;Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA 37831;Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA 37831;College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA 07102-1982

  • Venue:
  • Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In earlier works we presented a computational infrastructure that allows an analyst to estimate the security of a system in terms of the loss that each stakeholder stands to sustain as a result of security breakdowns. In this paper we illustrate this infrastructure by means of an e-commerce application.