Topic for Thursday, October 9, 2003

"Real-time MILS CORBA: High Assurance Security 
for Real-time, Distributed Systems"

Steve Grimaldi and Victor Giddings
(both of Objective Interface Systems)

A frequent requirement in mission-critical systems is the need for high-assurance security. MILS security represents an evolutionary approach to building secure systems with many concepts that depart from, and some concepts derived from, the older Bell-LaPadula theories on secure systems (which form the foundation of the DoD Orange Book). The interaction of CORBA and MILS security is not addressed by the existing CORBA Security specification, since the CORBA specification does not address multilevel security and provides a overly wide trust model. This presentation will describe an initiative to integrate and standardize Realtime CORBA with MILS. 


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