Specification and validation of authorisation constraints using UML and OCL

  • Authors:
  • Karsten Sohr;Gail-Joon Ahn;Martin Gogolla;Lars Migge

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ESORICS'05 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Research in Computer Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Authorisation constraints can help the policy architect design and express higher-level security policies for organisations such as financial institutes or governmental agencies. Although the importance of constraints has been addressed in the literature, there does not exist a systematic way to validate and test authorisation constraints. In this paper, we attempt to specify non-temporal constraints and history-based constraints in Object Constraint Language (OCL) which is a constraint specification language of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and describe how we can facilitate the USE tool to validate and test such policies. We also discuss the issues of identification of conflicting constraints and missing constraints.