Multilevel security and quality of protection

  • Simon N. Foley
  • , Stefano Bistarelli
  • , Barry O'Sullivan
  • , John Herbert
  • , Garret Swart

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Abstract

Constraining how information may flow within a system is at the heart of many protection mechanisms and many security policies have direct interpretations in terms of information flow and multilevel security style controls. However, while conceptually simple, multilevel security controls have been difficult to achieve in practice. In this paper we explore how the traditional assurance measures that are used in the network multilevel security model can be re-interpreted and generalised to provide the basis of a framework for reasoning about the quality of protection provided by a secure system configuration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQuality of Protection
Subtitle of host publicationSecurity Measurements and Metrics
PublisherSpringer New York LLC
Pages93-105
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9780387290164
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Publication series

NameAdvances in Information Security
Volume23
ISSN (Print)1568-2633

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