Self-Protection Mechanisms for Web Applications - A Case Study

Claudia Raibulet, Alberto Leporati, Andrea Metelli

2016

Abstract

Self-protection mechanisms aim to improve security of software systems at runtime. They are able to automatically prevent and/or react to security threats by observing the state of a system and its execution environment, by reasoning on the observed state, and by applying enhanced security strategies appropriate for the current threat. Self-protection mechanisms complement traditional security solutions which are mostly static and focus on the boundaries of a system, missing in this way the overall picture of a system's security. This paper presents several self-protection mechanisms which have been developed in the context of a case study concerning a home banking system. Essentially, the mechanisms described in this paper aim to improve the security of the system in the following two scenarios: users' login and bank operations. Furthermore, the proposed self-protection mechanisms are presented through the taxonomy proposed in (Yuan, 2014).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Raibulet C., Leporati A. and Metelli A. (2016). Self-Protection Mechanisms for Web Applications - A Case Study . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-189-2, pages 181-188. DOI: 10.5220/0005869101810188

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase16,
author={Claudia Raibulet and Alberto Leporati and Andrea Metelli},
title={Self-Protection Mechanisms for Web Applications - A Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2016},
pages={181-188},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005869101810188},
isbn={978-989-758-189-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Self-Protection Mechanisms for Web Applications - A Case Study
SN - 978-989-758-189-2
AU - Raibulet C.
AU - Leporati A.
AU - Metelli A.
PY - 2016
SP - 181
EP - 188
DO - 10.5220/0005869101810188