Distributed Middleware Enforcement of Event Flow Security Policy
Abstract
Distributed, event-driven applications that process
sensitive user data and involve multiple organisational domains must
comply with complex security requirements. Ideally, developers want to
express security policy for such applications in data-centric terms,
controlling the flow of information throughout the system. Current
middleware does not support the specification of such end-to-end
security policy and lacks uniform mechanisms for enforcement. We
describe DEFCon-Policy, a middleware that enforces security policy in
multi-domain, event-driven applications. Event flow policy is expressed
in a high-level language that specifies permitted flows between
distributed software components. The middleware limits the interaction
of components based on the policy and the data that components have
observed. It achieves this by labelling data and assigning privileges to
components. We evaluate DEFCon-Policy in a realistic medical scenario
and demonstrate that it can provide global security guarantees without
burdening application developers.
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