Using requirements engineering in an automatic security policy derivation process

  • Authors:
  • Mariem Graa;Nora Cuppens-Boulahia;Fabien Autrel;Hanieh Azkia;Frédéric Cuppens;Gouenou Coatrieux;Ana Cavalli;Amel Mammar

  • Affiliations:
  • Télécom-Bretagne, Cesson Sévigne, France and Télécom SudParis, Evry Cedex, France;Télécom-Bretagne, Cesson Sévigne, France;Télécom-Bretagne, Cesson Sévigne, France;Télécom-Bretagne, Cesson Sévigne, France;Télécom-Bretagne, Cesson Sévigne, France;Télécom-Bretagne, Brest, France;Télécom SudParis, Evry Cedex, France;Télécom SudParis, Evry Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • DPM'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference, and 4th international conference on Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneus Security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Traditionally, a security policy is defined from an informal set of requirements, generally written using natural language. It is then difficult to appreciate the compatibility degree of the manually generated security policy with the informal requirements definition. The idea of this paper is to automate the process of deriving the formal security policy, using a more structured specification of the security objectives issued by the administrator of the information system to be secured. We chose the goal-oriented methodology KAOS to express the functional objectives, then based on the results of a risk analysis, we integrate the security objectives to the obtained KAOS framework. Finally, through a process of transformation applied to this structured security objectives specification, we automatically generate the corresponding security policy. This policy is consistent with the access control model OrBAC (Organization Access Control).