Recovering role-based access control security models from dynamic web applications

  • Authors:
  • Manar H. Alalfi;James R. Cordy;Thomas R. Dean

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;School of Computing, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;School of Computing, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ICWE'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Security of dynamic web applications is a serious issue. While Model Driven Architecture (MDA) techniques can be used to generate applications with given access control security properties, analysis of existing web applications is more problematic. In this paper we present a model transformation technique to automatically construct a role-based access control (RBAC) security model of dynamic web applications from previously recovered structural and behavioral models. The SecureUML model generated by this technique can be used to check for security properties of the original application. We demonstrate our approach by constructing an RBAC security model of PhpBB, a popular internet bulletin board system.