Gate automata-driven run-time enforcement

  • Authors:
  • Gabriele Costa;Ilaria Matteucci

  • Affiliations:
  • Universití di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy and Istituto di Informatica e Telematica-CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy;Istituto di Informatica e Telematica-CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Security and trust represent two different perspectives on the problem of guaranteeing the correct interaction among software components. Gate automata have been proposed as a formalism for the specification of both security and trust policies in the scope of the Security-by-Contract-with-Trust (SxCxT) framework. Indeed, they watch the execution of a target program, possibly modifying its behaviour, and produce a feedback for the trust management system. The level of trust changes the environment settings by dynamically activating/deactivating some of the defined gate automata. The goal of this paper is to present gate automata and to show a gate automata-driven strategy for the run-time enforcement in the SxCxT.