Authors:
Beatriz Gallego-Nicasio
1
;
Antonio Muñoz
2
;
Antonio Maña
2
and
Daniel Serrano
2
Affiliations:
1
ATOS Origin, Spain
;
2
Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Keyword(s):
Security patterns, Ambient intelligence, Security and dependability services, Security measurements.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Information and Systems Security
;
Network Security
;
Security in Information Systems
;
Security Information Systems Architecture and Design and Security Patterns
;
Ubiquitous Computing Security
Abstract:
Traditionally, security patterns have successfully been used to describe security and dependability (S\&D) solutions, making them available to system engineers not being security experts. Recently, in the SERENITY research project, the notion of S\&D pattern was extended to exact specifications of re-usable S\&D mechanisms for Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems. SERENITY is focused in AmI systems, but its results can be applied to other computer paradigms: grids, distributed computing, etc. SERENITY S\&D patterns include information about both the S\&D properties that the solution satisfies and the requirements on the context conditions. Along this paper, we describe how abstract S\&D solutions can be implemented by means of functional S\&D services. In order to do that, our approach is based on the use of SERENITY S\&D patterns, and their implementations, called ExecutableComponents. Finally, we propose several examples and we prove their potential application to AmI scenarios.