Automating information flow control in component-based distributed systems

  • Authors:
  • Takoua Abdellatif;Lilia Sfaxi;Riadh Robbana;Yassine Lakhnech

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia;LIP2 Laboratory & Verimag Laboratory, Tunis, Tunisia;LIP2 Laboratory & INSAT, Tunis, Tunisia;Verimag Laboratory & UJF, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th international ACM Sigsoft symposium on Component based software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Automating the construction of secure distributed systems becomes necessary. Indeed, developing security code requires a deep expertise and verifying that the developed code respects the specified policy is a tedious task. In this paper, we define a toolkit called CIF (Component Information Flow) that automates the development of secure distributed systems. The developer defines the security properties through a policy configuration file. When this configuration is validated, that is no security leak is detected, the system security code is generated. A performance evaluation of an implemented use case shows the effectiveness of the approach.