NDLI: Security Policy Enforcement in the OSGi Framework Using Aspect-Oriented Programming

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Phung, P.H. Sands, D.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg (Phung, P.H.; Sands, D.)
Abstract	The lifecycle mismatch between vehicles and their IT system poses a problem for the automotive industry. Such systems need to be open and extensible to provide customised functionalities and services. What is less clear is how to achieve this with quality and security guarantees. Recent studies in language-based security - the use of programming language technology to enforce application specific security policies - show that security policy enforcement mechanisms such as Mined reference monitors provide a potential solution for security in extensible systems. In this paper we study the implementation of security policy enforcement using aspect-oriented programming for the OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) framework. We identify classes of reference monitor-style policies that can be defined and enforced using AspectJ, a well-known aspect-oriented programming language. We demonstrate the use of security states to describe history-based policies. We also introduce and implement various levels of security states in Java to describe session level history versus global application level history. We illustrate the effectiveness of the implementation by deploying the security policy enforcement solution in an example scenario of software downloading in a standard vehicle system.
Starting Page	1076
Ending Page	1082
File Size	268344
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769532622
ISSN	07303157
DOI	10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.149
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-07-28
Publisher Place	Finland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Security Monitoring Java Vehicles Libraries Software History vehicle software Security policy enforcement reference monitors Aspect-oriented programming OSGi middleware
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Software

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