CoSMo: An Approach Towards Conceptual Security Modeling

Christine Artelsmair, Wolfgang Essmayr, Peter Lang, Roland Wagner, Edgar Weippl

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Abstract

Security is generally believed to be a very important topic. However, during software development security requirements are hardly ever properly treated, least of all on the conceptual level. Security is considered as some kind of add-on which will be applied to the system after development. To fill this gap we work on the development of a conceptual security modeling method we refer to as CoSMo (Conceptual Security Modeling). In this paper first a comprehensive summary of available security modeling methodologies is presented. Second, various security requirements and mechanisms which are necessary for building secure software systems are described systematically to give a clear distinction between requirements and mechanisms to enforce the security requirements. Finally, a modeling example is given to illustrate particular security requirements and mechanisms.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2002
EditorsAbdelkader Hameurlain, Rosiner Cicchetti, Roland Traunmuller
Pages557-566
Number of pages10
Volume2453
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2002

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2453
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Fields of science

  • 102001 Artificial intelligence
  • 102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
  • 102010 Database systems
  • 102014 Information design
  • 102015 Information systems
  • 102016 IT security
  • 102028 Knowledge engineering
  • 102019 Machine learning
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102025 Distributed systems
  • 502007 E-commerce
  • 505002 Data protection
  • 506002 E-government
  • 509018 Knowledge management
  • 202007 Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
  • 102033 Data mining
  • 102035 Data science

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