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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 6 months ago
Towards temporal access control in cloud computing
—Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. Attribute-based access control provides a flexible approach that allows data owners to integ...
Yan Zhu, Hongxin Hu, Gail-Joon Ahn, Dijiang Huang,...
CODASPY
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Comparison-based encryption for fine-grained access control in clouds
Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. However, there has been little work that explores various comparison-based constraints for regu...
Yan Zhu, Hongxin Hu, Gail-Joon Ahn, Mengyang Yu, H...
AICT
2010
IEEE
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12 years 8 months ago
Providing Security in 4G Systems: Unveiling the Challenges
— Several research groups are working on designing new security architectures for 4G networks such as Hokey and Y-Comm. Since designing an efficient security module requires a cl...
Mahdi Aiash, Glenford E. Mapp, Aboubaker Lasebae, ...
ENTCS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Infrastructural Support for Enforcing and Managing Distributed Application-Level Policies
State-of-the-art security mechanisms are often enforced in isolation from each other, which limits the kinds of policies that can be enforced in distributed and heterogeneous sett...
Tom Goovaerts, Bart De Win, Wouter Joosen
DBSEC
2009
122views Database» more  DBSEC 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
An Approach to Security Policy Configuration Using Semantic Threat Graphs
Managing the configuration of heterogeneous enterprise security mechanisms is a wholly complex task. The effectiveness of a configuration may be constrained by poor understanding a...
Simon N. Foley, William M. Fitzgerald
USENIX
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Reliability and Security in the CoDeeN Content Distribution Network
With the advent of large-scale, wide-area networking testbeds, researchers can deploy long-running distributed services that interact with other resources on the Web. The CoDeeN C...
Limin Wang, KyoungSoo Park, Ruoming Pang, Vivek S....
RECOSOC
2007
115views Hardware» more  RECOSOC 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
Self-adaptive Security at Application Level: a Proposal
—Self-adaptive systems have the ability to adapt themselves to mutating external or internal conditions without requesting any intervention of the user; the security of such syst...
Alberto Ferrante, Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Mariagi...
ISSRE
2007
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Testing Security Policies: Going Beyond Functional Testing
While important efforts are dedicated to system functional testing, very few works study how to test specifically security mechanisms, implementing a security policy. This paper i...
Yves Le Traon, Tejeddine Mouelhi, Benoit Baudry
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
A look in the mirror: attacks on package managers
This work studies the security of ten popular package managers. These package managers use different security mechanisms that provide varying levels of usability and resilience to...
Justin Cappos, Justin Samuel, Scott M. Baker, John...
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
NetAuth: Supporting User-Based Network Services
In User-Based Network Services (UBNS), the process servicing requests from user U runs under U's ID. This enables (operating system) access controls to tailor service authori...
Manigandan Radhakrishnan, Jon A. Solworth