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Engineering Secure Software and Systems

First International Symposium, ESSoS 2009 Leuven, Belgium, February 4-6, 2009, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5429)

Part of the book sub series: Security and Cryptology (LNSC)

Conference series link(s): ESSoS: International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems

Conference proceedings info: ESSoS 2009.

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Policy Verification and Enforcement

    1. Verification of Business Process Entailment Constraints Using SPIN

      • Christian Wolter, Philip Miseldine, Christoph Meinel
      Pages 1-15
    2. From Formal Access Control Policies to Runtime Enforcement Aspects

      • Slim Kallel, Anis Charfi, Mira Mezini, Mohamed Jmaiel, Karl Klose
      Pages 16-31
    3. Idea: Trusted Emergency Management

      • Timothy E. Levin, Cynthia E. Irvine, Terry V. Benzel, Thuy D. Nguyen, Paul C. Clark, Ganesha Bhaskara
      Pages 32-36
  3. Model Refinement and Program Transformation

    1. Idea: Action Refinement for Security Properties Enforcement

      • Fabio Martinelli, Ilaria Matteucci
      Pages 37-42
  4. Secure System Development

    1. Report: Measuring the Attack Surfaces of Enterprise Software

      • Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Yuecel Karabulut, Jeannette M. Wing
      Pages 91-100
    2. Report: Extensibility and Implementation Independence of the .NET Cryptographic API

      • Pieter Philippaerts, Cédric Boon, Frank Piessens
      Pages 101-110
    3. Protection Poker: Structuring Software Security Risk Assessment and Knowledge Transfer

      • Laurie Williams, Michael Gegick, Andrew Meneely
      Pages 122-134
  5. Attack Analysis and Prevention

    1. Toward Non-security Failures as a Predictor of Security Faults and Failures

      • Michael Gegick, Pete Rotella, Laurie Williams
      Pages 135-149
    2. A Scalable Approach to Full Attack Graphs Generation

      • Feng Chen, Jinshu Su, Yi Zhang
      Pages 150-163
    3. MEDS: The Memory Error Detection System

      • Jason D. Hiser, Clark L. Coleman, Michele Co, Jack W. Davidson
      Pages 164-179
  6. Testing and Assurance

    1. Idea: Automatic Security Testing for Web Applications

      • Thanh-Binh Dao, Etsuya Shibayama
      Pages 180-184
    2. Idea: Measuring the Effect of Code Complexity on Static Analysis Results

      • James Walden, Adam Messer, Alex Kuhl
      Pages 195-199
  7. Back Matter

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems, ESSoS 2009, held in Leuven, Belgium, in February 2009.

The 10 revised full papers presented together with 7 industry reports and ideas papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on policy verification and enforcement, model refinement and program transformation, secure system development, attack analysis and prevention, as well as testing and assurance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Trento, Povo (Trento), Italy

    Fabio Massacci

  • Department of Computer Science, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA

    Samuel T. Redwine

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

    Nicola Zannone

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