Secure and Compliant Implementation of Business Process-driven Systems

By Achim D. Brucker and Isabelle Hang.

Today’s businesses are inherently process-driven. Consequently, the use of business-process driven systems, usually implemented on top of service-oriented or cloud-based infrastructures, is increasing. At the same time, the demand on the security, privacy, and compliance of such systems is increasing as well. As a result, the costs—with respect to computational effort at runtime as well as financial costs—for operating business-process driven systems increase steadily.

In this paper, we present a method for statically checking the security and conformance of the system implementation, , on the source code level, to requirements specified on the business process level. As the compliance is statically guaranteed—already at design-time—this method reduces the number of run-time checks for ensuring the security and compliance and, thus, improves the runtime performances. Moreover, it reduces the costs of system audits, as there is no need for analyzing the generated log files for validating the compliance to the properties that are already statically guaranteed.

Keywords:
Business Process Security, Secure Service Tasks, BPMN, Static Program Analysis

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Please cite this work as follows:
A. D. Brucker and I. Hang, “Secure and compliant implementation of business process-driven systems,” in Joint workshop on security in business processes (SBP), 2012, vol. 132, pp. 662–674. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36285-9_66. Author copy: http://logicalhacking.com/publications/brucker.ea-secure-2012/

BibTeX
@InProceedings{ brucker.ea:secure:2012,
  author    = {Achim D. Brucker and Isabelle Hang},
  title     = {Secure and Compliant Implementation of Business
               Process-driven Systems},
  language  = {USenglish},
  booktitle = {Joint Workshop on Security in Business Processes (SBP)},
  editor    = {Marcello La Rosa and Pnina Soffer},
  pages     = {662--674},
  year      = {2012},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag },
  address   = {Heidelberg },
  volume    = {132},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-642-36285-9_66},
  abstract  = {Today's businesses are inherently process-driven.
               Consequently, the use of business-process driven systems,
               usually implemented on top of \emph{service-oriented} or
               \emph{cloud-based} infrastructures, is increasing. At the same
               time, the demand on the security, privacy, and compliance of
               such systems is increasing as well. As a result, the
               costs---with respect to computational effort at runtime as
               well as financial costs---for operating business-process
               driven systems increase steadily.
               
               In this paper, we present a method for statically checking the
               security and conformance of the system implementation, \eg, on
               the source code level, to requirements specified on the
               business process level. As the compliance is statically
               guaranteed---already at design-time---this method reduces the
               number of run-time checks for ensuring the security and
               compliance and, thus, improves the runtime performances.
               Moreover, it reduces the costs of system audits, as there is
               no need for analyzing the generated log files for validating
               the compliance to the properties that are already statically
               guaranteed.},
  areas     = {software,security},
  keywords  = {Business Process Security, Secure Service Tasks, BPMN, Static
               Program Analysis},
  note      = {Author copy: \url{http://logicalhacking.com/publications/brucker.ea-secure-2012/}},
}