The Anatomy and Facets of Dynamic Policies
Paper i proceeding, 2015

Information flow policies are often dynamic; the security concerns of a program will typically change during execution to reflect security-relevant events. A key challenge is how to best specify, and give proper meaning to, such dynamic policies. A large number of approaches exist that tackle that challenge, each yielding some important, but unconnected, insight. In this work we synthesise existing knowledge on dynamic policies, with an aim to establish a common terminology, best practices, and frameworks for reasoning about them. We introduce the concept of facets to illuminate subtleties in the semantics of policies, and closely examine the anatomy of policies and the expressiveness of policy specification mechanisms. We further explore the relation between dynamic policies and the concept of declassification.

declassification

dynamic policies

information flow control

facets

Författare

Niklas Broberg

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik

Bart van Delft

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik

David Sands

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik

Proceedings. The Computer Security Foundations Workshop III

1063-6900 (ISSN)

Vol. 2015-September 122-136
978-1-4673-7538-2 (ISBN)

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Data- och informationsvetenskap

DOI

10.1109/CSF.2015.16

ISBN

978-1-4673-7538-2

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