Transnational Information Sharing, Event Notification, Rule Enforcement and Process Coordination

Su, Stanley Y. W.; Fortes, J.A.B.; Kasad, T. R.; Patil, M.; Matsunaga, Andrea; Tsugawa, Mauricio; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta; Carbonell, Jaime G.; Jansen, Peter J.; Ward, Wayne H.; Cole, Ronald A.; Towsley, D.; Chen, W.; Antón, Annie I.; He, Qingfeng; McSweeney, C.; Brens, L. de; Ventura, Jairo Martínez; Taveras, Pedro; Connolly, Robert A.; Ortega, Cristina Dotta; Piñeres, B.; Brooks, Oona; Murillo, G.A.; Herrera, M.

doi:10.4018/jegr.2005040101

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“…The ReCAPS method was developed in two formative case studies involving operational software systems: the Security and Privacy Requirements Analysis Tool (SPRAT) [40] and the Transnational Digital Government (TDG) remote border control system [41]. The SPRAT is a Java-based software tool that provides support for analyzing and specifying security and privacy requirements, policies, as well as ACPs.…”

Section: The Recaps Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Requirements-based Access Control Analysis and Policy Specification (ReCAPS)

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Antón

2009

Information and Software Technology

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a b s t r a c tAccess control (AC) is a mechanism for achieving confidentiality and integrity in software systems. Access control policies (ACPs) express rules concerning who can access what information, and under what conditions. ACP specification is not an explicit part of the software development process and is often isolated from requirements analysis activities, leaving systems vulnerable to security breaches because policies are specified without ensuring compliance with system requirements. In this paper, we present the Requirements-based Access Control Analysis and Policy Specification (ReCAPS) method for deriving and specifying ACPs, and discuss three validation efforts. The method integrates policy specification into the software development process, ensures consistency across software artifacts, and provides prescriptive guidance for how to specify ACPs. It also improves the quality of requirements specifications and system designs by clarifying ambiguities and resolving conflicts across these artifacts during the analysis, making a significant step towards ensuring that policies are enforced in a manner consistent with a system's requirements specifications. To date, the method has been applied within the context of four operational systems. Additionally, we have conducted an empirical study to evaluate its usefulness and effectiveness. A software tool, the Security and Privacy Requirements Analysis Tool (SPRAT), was developed to support ReCAPS analysis activities.

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Section: The Recaps Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Requirements-based Access Control Analysis and Policy Specification (ReCAPS)

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Antón

2009

Information and Software Technology

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“…In a study focused on information exchange to combat drug traffic, Matsunaga et al [40] propose a framework to transform transnational applications into web services that are secure, support interactivity, and do not constrain application functionality. Drawing from the same project, Su et al [65] present a technical framework to achieve information sharing, event notification, and enforcement of policies, constraints, and regulations between Latin American countries.…”

Section: E-government Research On Transnational Knowledge and Informamentioning

confidence: 98%

Conceptualizing knowledge and information sharing in transnational knowledge networks

Gharawi

Dawes

2010

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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In the era of globalization, sharing of knowledge, information, and practices across cultural and national boundaries has been recognized as a key for handling the most critical problems. Consequently, the number of Transnational Knowledge Networks (TKNs) that aim to address critical global issues and problems continue to increase. As exchanging knowledge and information represent core components of these networks, this paper provides the foundations to study knowledge and information sharing in these emerging organizations. The paper starts by describing the structures, goals, and objectives of TKNs and presents a simplified conceptual model to demonstrate the main characteristics of these networks. Then, we review the pertinent egovernment literature and argue the need to include findings from two additional research areas, cross-boundary information sharing and knowledge transfer. The paper discusses the ways in which contributions from these areas can enhance our understanding of the complexity surrounding the exchange process in these networks. The paper concludes with a summary of the elements of complexity and an overview of future research to empirically test these concepts.

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“…That social science or political skills can by themselves succeed along the lines of the first approach is wishful thinking. This paper argues for the necessity and viability of the latter solution on the basis of existing and new virtualization technologies introduced by the authors and experiential evidence in the context of a transnational DG project [1].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They do so by creating IT environments that are homogeneous across institutions and specifically suited to the DG applications of interest. For example, in the context of a transnational DG (TDG) project [1], these applications included database query systems, machine translation software and conversational interfaces and the challenge was to deploy them across three countries (Belize, US and the Dominican Republic) with vastly different IT infrastructures.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%