The First International Workshop on Dependability and Security
in Complex and Critical Information Systems
DEPEND 2008
August 25-31, 2008 - Cap Esterel, France
Panel Session: Dependability and Security in
Complex and Critical Information Systems
Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta
University of Murcia
Spain
Department of Communications and
Information Engineering
University of Murcia (Spain)
Challenges
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Information System Management increase the complexity of the models to work
with in relation to classical network management systems and PBNM
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Need for flexible and powerful models for service provision, data governance and
system configuration allowing for affordable management functions
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Trust and dependability can not be built in isolation neither can it rely on
technologies of one layer only, there is need to provide integrated view and
considered some hierarchy of models
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Interoperable (policy-aware) architectures from trusted communications to the
application, including to the data; Web Service technologies to support
interoperability.
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Usage of a common models and abstraction of the underlying system providing
and overlay view of IT the business objectives behind.
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Architectural design to support the flexibility and the dynamicity of the trust
management in a vertical approach from application to the network and data layer.
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Challenges

Dynamic in the trust relations to allow flexible and spontaneous trust
relation to be created based on the communications needs. Confederation
concepts
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There is a need homogeneous naming of entities (natural and legal
persons, objects, virtual entities, devices, content, processes, applications,
etc) and trust attribution schemes (identity management, authentication,
authorization, accountability, reputation) .
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Semantic security layer need to be considered as an additional component
in the trust relation to allow the possibility to enrich the trust models
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Internet of things implies to be able to associate trust and behaviours tags
to the digital objects and their relation
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