Security as a Service - A Reference Architecture for SOA Security

Mukhtiar Memon, Michael Hafner, Ruth Breu

2009

Abstract

Securing service-oriented systems is challenging, because like business services the security services are equally distributed in SOA systems. Enforcing security exclusively at the endpoints creates a significant security burden. Also, every endpoint has to implement the entire security infrastructure, which is an expensive approach. Currently, there is very little work done to separate security from service endpoints. We propose a Security As A Service (SAAS) approach, which shifts major security burden from service endpoints to dedicated and shared security services within a security domain. Security services are composed from components, and integrated based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) model. In this contribution, we apply the SAAS paradigm to implement security for SECTISSIMO, which is a platform-independent framework for security modeling and implementation (M. Memon, M. Hafner, and R. Breu).

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in Harvard Style

Memon M., Hafner M. and Breu R. (2009). Security as a Service - A Reference Architecture for SOA Security . In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-91-3, pages 79-89. DOI: 10.5220/0002174900790089


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wosis09,
author={Mukhtiar Memon and Michael Hafner and Ruth Breu},
title={Security as a Service - A Reference Architecture for SOA Security},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={79-89},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002174900790089},
isbn={978-989-8111-91-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2009)
TI - Security as a Service - A Reference Architecture for SOA Security
SN - 978-989-8111-91-3
AU - Memon M.
AU - Hafner M.
AU - Breu R.
PY - 2009
SP - 79
EP - 89
DO - 10.5220/0002174900790089