Quality of Security Service Costing Demonstration for the MSHN Project

Abstract

Security requirements for a task, system or network may permit the selection of a range of underlying services or security behaviors. When a range of services is available, variant security is possible. Variant security permits the notion of Quality of Security Service (QoSS) to be introduced. This paper describes a quality of security service demonstration, specifically with respect to costing. We describe the network as having three modes: normal, impacted, and emergency. For each of these modes, the user is given three possible security levels: low, medium and high. A variety of security services contribute to the overall security of each task. Each service has two costs: an initialization cost and a run-time cost. The demonstration illustrates the costs incurred as network modes and security levels are changed. High level and detailed specifications are provided.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 25, 2000
Accession Number
ADA377414

Entities

People

  • Cynthia E. Irvine
  • Evdoxia Spyropoulou
  • Timothy E. Levin

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Application Software
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Demonstrations
  • Emergencies
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Instructions
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design