A Catalog of Security-oriented Program Transformations

Hafiz, Munawar; Adamczyk, Paul; Johnson, Ralph

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/11517 Copy

Description

Title

A Catalog of Security-oriented Program Transformations

Author(s)

• Hafiz, Munawar
• Adamczyk, Paul
• Johnson, Ralph

Issue Date

2009-02

Keyword(s)

computer security

Abstract

Security requirements change, but the typical way of improving system security by patches is ad hoc and has not produced good results. Security improvements should be systematic, just as new features can be added to software systematically. It would be easier to improve the security of a system if we had a catalog of security-oriented program transformations that could be used to plan changes, to divide the work to make changes, and as a target of automation. This paper describes a catalog of security-oriented program transformations that were derived from security patterns. It describes several ways of categorizing these transformations, our first attempts at validating the catalog, and how the catalog can be used to improve the security of systems.

Type of Resource

text

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/11517

Copyright and License Information

You are granted permission for the non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, BUT this permission is only for a period of 45 (forty-five) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s).

Owning Collections