Eliciting Security Requirements for Business Processes using Patterns

Naved Ahmed, Raimundas Matulevičius, Naiad Hossain Khan

2012

Abstract

Business process modelling and security engineering are two important concerns when developing information system (IS). However current practices report that security is addressed rather at the later development stages (i.e., design and implementation). This raises a question whether the business processes are performed securely. In this paper, we propose a method to align business process modelling and security engineering. We develop a set of security risk-oriented patterns. Such patterns help to understand security risks that potentially arise within business processes, and to introduce security solutions. To ease the applicability the security risk-oriented patterns are defined using BPMN notations. The proposal is tested in an industrial business model and the findings indicate a positive usefulness to identify important business assets, their security risks and countermeasures.

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Ahmed N., Matulevičius R. and Hossain Khan N. (2012). Eliciting Security Requirements for Business Processes using Patterns . In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-15-0, pages 49-58. DOI: 10.5220/0004100200490058


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@conference{wosis12,
author={Naved Ahmed and Raimundas Matulevičius and Naiad Hossain Khan},
title={Eliciting Security Requirements for Business Processes using Patterns},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={49-58},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004100200490058},
isbn={978-989-8565-15-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - Eliciting Security Requirements for Business Processes using Patterns
SN - 978-989-8565-15-0
AU - Ahmed N.
AU - Matulevičius R.
AU - Hossain Khan N.
PY - 2012
SP - 49
EP - 58
DO - 10.5220/0004100200490058