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Malicious Changeload for the Resilience Evaluation of Self-adaptive Authorisation Infrastructures

Bailey, Christopher, de Lemos, Rogério (2020) Malicious Changeload for the Resilience Evaluation of Self-adaptive Authorisation Infrastructures. Future Generation Computer Systems, 113 . pp. 113-131. ISSN 0167-739X. (doi:10.1016/j.future.2020.06.045) (KAR id:81860)

Abstract

Self-adaptive systems are able to modify their behaviour and/or structure in response to changes that occur to the system, its environment, or even its goals. In terms of authorisation infrastructures, self-adaptation has shown to be a promising solution for enforcing access control policies and subject access privileges when mitigating insider threat. This paper describes the resilience evaluation of a self-adaptive authorisation infrastructure by simulating a case study related to insider threats. As part of this evaluation, a malicious changeload has been formally defined in order to describe scenarios of abuse in access control. This malicious changeload was then used to stimulate self-adaptation within a federated authorisation infrastructure.

The evaluation confirmed the resilience of a self-adaptive authorisation infrastructure in handling abuse of access under repeatable conditions by consistently mitigating abuse under normal and high loads. The evaluation has also shown that self-adaptation had a minimal impact on the authorisation infrastructure, even when adapting authorisation policies while mitigating abuse of access.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.future.2020.06.045
Uncontrolled keywords: self-protecting systems, authorisation infrastructures, changeload, insider threats, autonomic computing, access control
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, > QA76.76 Computer software
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Rogerio de Lemos
Date Deposited: 25 Jun 2020 06:16 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 16:46 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/81860 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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