{"title":"On Security Flow Analysis in Computer Systems (Preliminary Report)","authors":"Lishing Liu","doi":"10.1109/SP.1980.10001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A formal model of multilevel security systems is presented. We examine weaknesses of current security flow analysis mechanisms. A concept of expression flows is introduced, which allows us to use various techniques to certify systems that cannot be certified using current flow analysis techniques. We provide a method for generating static authorization requirements for systems in which authorization functions are only partially specified. We also attack the problem of using dynamic authorization functions for system certification.","PeriodicalId":372320,"journal":{"name":"1980 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1980-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"1980 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SP.1980.10001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A formal model of multilevel security systems is presented. We examine weaknesses of current security flow analysis mechanisms. A concept of expression flows is introduced, which allows us to use various techniques to certify systems that cannot be certified using current flow analysis techniques. We provide a method for generating static authorization requirements for systems in which authorization functions are only partially specified. We also attack the problem of using dynamic authorization functions for system certification.