NDLI: A Problem-Based Threat Analysis in Compliance with Common Criteria

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Beckers, K. Hatebur, D. Heisel, M.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Paluno, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany (Beckers, K.; Heisel, M.) \|\| ITESYS Inst. for Tech. Syst. GmbH, Dortmund, Germany (Hatebur, D.)
Abstract	In order to gain their customers' trust, software vendors can certify their products according to security standards, e.g., the Common Criteria (ISO 15408). A Common Criteria certification requires a comprehensible documentation of the software product, including a detailed threat analysis. In our work, we focus on improving that threat analysis. Our method is based upon an attacker model, which considers attacker types like software attacker that threaten only specific parts of a system. We use OCL expressions to check if all attackers for a specific domain have been considered. For example, we propose a computer-aided method that checks if all software systems have either considered a software attacker or documented an assumption that excludes software attackers. Hence, we propose a structured method for threat analysis that considers the Common Criteria's (CC) demands for documentation of the system in its environment and the reasoning that all threats are discovered. We use UML4PF, a UML profile and support tool for Jackson's problem frame method and OCL for supporting security reasoning, validation of models, and also to generate Common Criteria-compliant documentation. Our threat analysis method can also be used for threat analysis without the common criteria, because it uses a specific part of the UML profile that can be adapted to other demands with little effort. We illustrate our approach with the development of a smart metering gateway system.
Starting Page	111
Ending Page	120
File Size	663882
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550084
DOI	10.1109/ARES.2013.21
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-02
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Context Security Requirements Engineering Problem Frames Computational modeling Unified modeling language Documentation Cognition Common Criteria Document Generation Security Security Standards Software Model-driven Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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