Information 2016, 7(2), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/info7020023
Using Proven Reference Monitor Patterns for Security Evaluation
Mark R. Heckman 1,*
and Roger R. Schell 2,*
1
Center for Cyber Security Engineering and Technology, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
2
Aesec Corporation, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
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Academic Editor: Willy Susilo
Received: 12 February 2016 / Revised: 5 April 2016 / Accepted: 14 April 2016 / Published: 26 April 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluating the Security of Complex Systems)
Abstract
The most effective approach to evaluating the security of complex systems is to deliberately construct the systems using security patterns specifically designed to make them evaluable. Just such an integrated set of security patterns was created decades ago based on the Reference Monitor abstraction. An associated systematic security engineering and evaluation methodology was codified as an engineering standard in the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). This paper explains how the TCSEC and its Trusted Network Interpretation (TNI) constitute a set of security patterns for large, complex and distributed systems and how those patterns have been repeatedly and successfully used to create and evaluate some of the most secure government and commercial systems ever developed. View Full-TextKeywords:
security pattern; Reference Monitor; security kernel; TCSEC; Orange Book; TNI; Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
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