POLICY GROUP MEETING
December 1st, 1998
3085 ENG II
12:00 – 1:00 pm

 


In attendance:
Karl Levitt (KL), Premkumar Devanbu (PD), Michael Gertz (MG), Jim Hoagland (JH), Dan Zerkle (DZ)



TOPICS
    DARPA 99-10
    Innovative Claims
    Tasks
  1. DARPA 99-10
    1. Policy Language – apply it to intrusion detection or data mining
    2. DZ: Will rewrite his scenario
    3. DZ: Policy statements must be used for intrusion detection, checking or enforcement
      1. Need an explanation of UML and its utilities
    4. KL: Define what UML can do, that ADAGE cannot do
      1. MG: UML is more expressive
      2. KL: UML has tools, ADAGE does not
        1. Indicate tools and how they’d be used

        2.  
  2. Innovative Claims – 1 page
    1. Scalable Design – Policy System Integration
      1. Limitations of current system, separation of design and policy
    2. Leverage existing software and technology
    3. Expressive language for policy and systems specification
    4. Evaluation: Static, Analysis, Verification, Simulation
    5. SE Stuff: Encapsulation, Information hiding
    6. Language Features
      1. Dynamic Behavior
      2. Regular Expression
    7. Executable Model
    8. Reason About Changes
    9. Comparison with Existing Work – ADAGE, BAN LOGIC, CORBA, Formal methods
      1. Integration of existing work
      2. Take existing components and goals; map policy down to wrappers, firewalls, IDS, agents
    10. Contributions to Legacy
      1. Model existing system and its component à evolving
      2. Reengineer some existing systems
  3. Tasks
    1. Extending UML for security using Meta features
    2. Model existing systems/components
      1. How to model wrapper, router or firewall
      2. Legacy components – modeling an advantage over ADAGE using FSM, statecharts
      3. Map model to mechanism - software
    3. Produce Policy Specification
      1. Study impact of security policies
    4. Adapt and Extend UML Tools
      1. Design, Simulation, Analysis
    5. Develop UML Security-Centered Methodology