Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
If access control policy decision points are not neatly separated from the business logic of a system, the evolution of a security policy likely leads to the necessity of changing...
Yves Le Traon, Tejeddine Mouelhi, Alexander Pretsc...
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and, in particular, Web Services designs are currently widely used for the development of open, large-scale interoperable systems. In those sys...
We present a symbolic framework for refinement and composition of security protocols. ework uses the notion of ideal functionalities. These are abstract systems which are secure b...
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...