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Challenges for Evolving Large-Scale Security Architectures

Authors:
Geir Køien

Keywords: Evolving Security; System Security; Security Architecture; Long-term security planning.

Abstract:
In this paper, we conduct an informal analysis of challenges that face evolving large-scale security architectures. The 3rd generation partner project (3GPP) mobile systems is our example case and we shall investigate how these systems have evolved and how the security architecture has evolved with the system(s). The 3GPP systems not only represent a truly long-lived system family, but are also a massively successful system family, serving billions of subscribers. What once was an auxiliary voice-based infrastructure has evolved to become a main (and thereby critical) information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure for billions of people. The 25+ years of system evolution has not all been a linearly planned progression and the overall system is now clearly also a product of its history. Our ultimate goal is to capture some of the essence of security architecture evolution for critical ICT system.

Pages: 173 to 179

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-376-6

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014