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Title: Towards Rapid Re-Certification Using Formal Analysis
Authors: Daniel Smullen
Travis Breaux
Keywords: Software
DIACAP
IT Systems
Software Engineering
Issue Date: 27-Jul-2015
Publisher: Acquisiton Research Program
Citation: Published--Unlimited Distribution
Series/Report no.: Information Technology
CMU-AM-15-117
Abstract: Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition requires IT to undergo the DoD information assurance certification and accreditation process (DIACAP), which makes architecture-dependent assumptions. Emerging IT architectures, such as mobile and cloud-based platforms, invalidate these assumptions and prevent DoD from acquiring commercial technologies that are readily available to adversaries. To address this problem, we extended our initial automation framework, wherein an application profile is expressed in a formal language and scaled with evolving architectural assumptions. These profiles will help ensure that information assurance requirements are commensurate with risk and scalable based on an application changing external dependencies. Information assurance risk levels must account for changing environmental and IA parameters (confidentiality, integrity and availability) that result from dynamic recombination of applications during runtime. Our proposed language aims to address dynamically composable, multi-party systems that preserve security properties. Software developers and certification authorities can use these profiles expressed in first-order logic with an inference engine to advance the DIACAP and re-check compliance as IT systems evolve over time.
Description: Acquisition Management / Grant-funded Research
URI: https://dair.nps.edu/handle/123456789/2640
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