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Semantic Matching of Security Policies to Support Security Experts

Authors:
Othman Benammar
Hicham Elasri
Abderrahim Sekkaki

Keywords: Security-based policy; security management; ontology alignment; ontology enrichment.

Abstract:
Management of security policies has become increasingly difficult given the number of domains to manage, taken into consideration their extent and their complexity. Security experts has to deal with a variety of frameworks and specification languages used in different domains that may belong to any Cloud Computing or Distributed Systems. This wealth of frameworks and languages make the management task and the interpretation of the security policies so difficult. Each approach provides its own conflict management method or tool, the security expert will be forced to manage all these tools, which makes the field maintenance and time consuming expensive. In order to hide this complexity and to facilitate some security expert’s tasks and automate the others, we propose a security policies aligning based on ontologies process; this process enables to detect and resolve security policies conflicts and to support security experts in managing tasks.

Pages: 112 to 118

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: August 19, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-209-7

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012