Automated Security Metrics in ISMSs to Discover the Level of Security of OSs and DBMSs

Angel Gallego, Antonio Santos-Olmo, Luís Enrique Sánchez, Eduardo Fernández-Medina

2011

Abstract

The information society is ever-increasingly dependent upon Information Security Management Systems (ISMSs), and the availability of these systems has come to be vital to the evolution of SMEs. However, this type of companies requires ISMSs which have been adapted to their particular characteristics, and which are optimised from the point of view of the resources that are necessary to install and maintain them. This paper concentrates on the development of a process for ISMSs that will allow the level of security of critical applications installed in these sytems, i.e., Operative Systems and Data Base Management Systems, to be measured. This process is currently being directly applied in real cases, thus leading to an improvement in its application.

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Gallego A., Santos-Olmo A., Enrique Sánchez L. and Fernández-Medina E. (2011). Automated Security Metrics in ISMSs to Discover the Level of Security of OSs and DBMSs . In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-61-4, pages 159-166. DOI: 10.5220/0003593901590166


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wosis11,
author={Angel Gallego and Antonio Santos-Olmo and Luís Enrique Sánchez and Eduardo Fernández-Medina},
title={Automated Security Metrics in ISMSs to Discover the Level of Security of OSs and DBMSs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={159-166},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003593901590166},
isbn={978-989-8425-61-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2011)
TI - Automated Security Metrics in ISMSs to Discover the Level of Security of OSs and DBMSs
SN - 978-989-8425-61-4
AU - Gallego A.
AU - Santos-Olmo A.
AU - Enrique Sánchez L.
AU - Fernández-Medina E.
PY - 2011
SP - 159
EP - 166
DO - 10.5220/0003593901590166