Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models

Shamal Faily; Claudia Iacob; Raian Ali; Duncan Ki-Aries

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64330-0_12

Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models

Shamal Faily^*, Claudia Iacob, Raian Ali, Duncan Ki-Aries

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School of Computing

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Abstract

When used in requirements processes and tools, personas have the potential to identify vulnerabilities resulting from misalignment between user expectations and system goals. Typically, however, this potential is unfulfilled as personas and system goals are captured with different mindsets, by different teams, and for different purposes. If personas are visualised as goal models, it may be easier for stakeholders to see implications of their goals being satisfied or denied, and designers to incorporate the creation and analysis of such models into the broader RE tool-chain. This paper outlines a tool-supported approach for finding implicit vulnerabilities from user and system goals by reframing personas as social goal models. We illustrate this approach with a case study where previously hidden vulnerabilities based on human behaviour were identified.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computer Security - ESORICS 2020 International Workshops, CyberICPS, SECPRE, and ADIoT, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Sokratis Katsikas, Frédéric Cuppens, Nora Cuppens, Costas Lambrinoudakis, Christos Kalloniatis, John Mylopoulos, Annie Antón, Stefanos Gritzalis, Weizhi Meng, Steven Furnell
Publisher	Springer
Pages	185-202
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-64330-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-64329-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64330-0_12
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2020
Event	6th International Workshop on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2020, 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2020, and 3rd International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things, ADIoT 2020, held in conjunction with 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020 - Guildford, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Sept 2020 → 18 Sept 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	12501 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	6th International Workshop on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2020, 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2020, and 3rd International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things, ADIoT 2020, held in conjunction with 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Guildford
Period	14/09/20 → 18/09/20

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Katsikas S. et al. (eds) Computer Security. CyberICPS 2020, SECPRE 2020, ADIoT 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12501. Springer, Cham. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64330-0_12.
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Faily, S., Iacob, C., Ali, R., & Ki-Aries, D. (2020). Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models. In S. Katsikas, F. Cuppens, N. Cuppens, C. Lambrinoudakis, C. Kalloniatis, J. Mylopoulos, A. Antón, S. Gritzalis, W. Meng, & S. Furnell (Eds.), Computer Security - ESORICS 2020 International Workshops, CyberICPS, SECPRE, and ADIoT, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 185-202). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12501 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64330-0_12

Faily, Shamal ; Iacob, Claudia ; Ali, Raian et al. / Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models. Computer Security - ESORICS 2020 International Workshops, CyberICPS, SECPRE, and ADIoT, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Sokratis Katsikas ; Frédéric Cuppens ; Nora Cuppens ; Costas Lambrinoudakis ; Christos Kalloniatis ; John Mylopoulos ; Annie Antón ; Stefanos Gritzalis ; Weizhi Meng ; Steven Furnell. Springer, 2020. pp. 185-202 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Faily, S, Iacob, C, Ali, R & Ki-Aries, D 2020, Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models. in S Katsikas, F Cuppens, N Cuppens, C Lambrinoudakis, C Kalloniatis, J Mylopoulos, A Antón, S Gritzalis, W Meng & S Furnell (eds), Computer Security - ESORICS 2020 International Workshops, CyberICPS, SECPRE, and ADIoT, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12501 LNCS, Springer, pp. 185-202, 6th International Workshop on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2020, 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2020, and 3rd International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things, ADIoT 2020, held in conjunction with 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020, Guildford, United Kingdom, 14/09/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64330-0_12

Identifying implicit vulnerabilities through personas as goal models. / Faily, Shamal; Iacob, Claudia; Ali, Raian et al.
Computer Security - ESORICS 2020 International Workshops, CyberICPS, SECPRE, and ADIoT, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Sokratis Katsikas; Frédéric Cuppens; Nora Cuppens; Costas Lambrinoudakis; Christos Kalloniatis; John Mylopoulos; Annie Antón; Stefanos Gritzalis; Weizhi Meng; Steven Furnell. Springer, 2020. p. 185-202 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12501 LNCS).

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