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A new pattern template to support the design of security architectures

Authors:
Santiago Moral-García
Roberto Ortiz
Santiago Moral-Rubio
Belén Vela
Javier Garzás
Eduardo Fernández-Medina

Keywords: information security engineering; security architectures; security technologies; security patterns; real environments.

Abstract:
The vast majority of current security patterns are oriented towards the production of security mechanisms, such as secure access systems or secure authentication systems. This type of patterns may be extremely useful for those security engineers who work on the production of this kind of mechanisms for large companies (Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Google, Cisco, etc.), but they cannot be applied by a wide sector of security engineers who work in the development of security architectures. This is owing to the fact that these patterns do not consider aspects of the real complex system in which they will be installed. In order to complement security patterns and make them more applicable to security architecture design environments, in this paper we will propose a new description template of security patterns. The solution provided by this new template is oriented towards the architecture and technologies that should be used to design security architectures in real complex systems.

Pages: 66 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: November 21, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3557

ISBN: 978-1-61208-111-3

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010