A survey on self-adaptive security for large-scale open environments

G Tziakouris, R Bahsoon, MA Babar - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018 - dl.acm.org
Contemporary software systems operate in heterogeneous, dynamic, and distributed
environments, where security needs change at runtime. The security solutions for such …

A systematic survey of self-protecting software systems

E Yuan, N Esfahani, S Malek - ACM Transactions on Autonomous and …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Self-protecting software systems are a class of autonomic systems capable of detecting and
mitigating security threats at runtime. They are growing in importance, as the stovepipe static …

Security measuring for self-adaptive security

A Evesti, H Abie, R Savola - … of the 2014 European Conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Self-adaptive security is needed due to vast amount of changes in an execution environment
and threat landscape, which all cannot be anticipated at software design-time. Self-adaptive …

Architecture-based self-protecting software systems

E Yuan, S Malek, B Schmerl, D Garlan… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Since conventional software security approaches are often manually developed and
statically deployed, they are no longer sufficient against today's sophisticated and evolving …

A taxonomy and survey of self-protecting software systems

E Yuan, S Malek - … on Software Engineering for Adaptive and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-protecting software systems are a class of autonomic systems capable of detecting and
mitigating security threats at runtime. They are growing in importance, as the stovepipe static …

Adaptive security for software systems

M Abdelrazek, J Grundy, A Ibrahim - Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable …, 2017 - Elsevier
With continuously changing operational and business needs, system security is one of the
key system capabilities that need to be updated as well. Most security engineering efforts …

Topology aware adaptive security

L Pasquale, C Ghezzi, C Menghi, C Tsigkanos… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Adaptive security systems aim to protect valuable assets in the face of changes in their
operational environment. They do so by monitoring and analysing this environment, and …

Challenges in engineering self-adaptive authorisation infrastructures

L Montrieux, R de Lemos, C Bailey - Engineering Adaptive Software …, 2019 - Springer
As organisations expand and interconnect, authorisation infrastructures become
increasingly difficult to manage. Several solutions have been proposed, including self …

Towards secure architecture-based adaptations

N Khakpour, C Skandylas… - 2019 IEEE/ACM 14th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As any software system, a self-adaptive system is subject to security threats. However,
applying self-adaptation may introduce additional threats. So far, little research has been …

[PDF][PDF] On the road to holistic decision making in adaptive security

M Emami-Taba, M Amoui, L Tahvildari - Technology Innovation …, 2013 - timreview.ca
Security is a critical concern in today's software systems. Besides the interconnectivity and
dynamic nature of network systems, the increasing complexity in modern software systems …