A Method for Quality Assessment of Threat Modeling Languages: The Case of enterpriseLang
2021 (English)In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS , 2021, p. 49-58Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Enterprise systems are growing in complexity, and the adoption of cloud and mobile services has greatly increased the attack surface. To proactively address these security issues in enterprise systems, a threat modeling language for enterprise systems called enterpriseLang was proposed. It is a domain-specific language (DSL) designed using the Meta Attack Language (MAL) framework and focuses on describing system assets, attack steps, defenses, and asset associations. The threat models can serve as input for attack simulations to analyze the behavior of attackers within the system. However, whether and to what extent the functionality of these threat modeling languages is achieved has not been addressed. To ensure the correct functionality of threat modeling languages, this paper proposes a method to assess the quality of such languages and illustrates its application using enterpriseLang.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
CEUR-WS , 2021. p. 49-58
Keywords [en]
Attack simulations, Design guidelines, Domain-specific language, Test coverage, Threat modeling, Modeling languages, Attack simulation, Cloud services, Design guideline, Enterprise system, ITS applications, Mobile service, Quality assessment, Security issues, Test-coverage, Problem oriented languages
National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316065Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121720425OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316065DiVA, id: diva2:1692965
Conference
14th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, PoEM-Forum 2021, 24 November 2021 through 26 November 2021
Note
QC 20220905
2022-09-052022-09-052022-12-20Bibliographically approved