August 14, 2009
Abstract
TTo achieve the vision of information superiority, secure and timely sharing of information is needed between geographically separated platforms and users. However, often the producers and consumers of the information, as well as the information itself are separated in different security domains. . A COTS marketplace of composable, high assurance components would not only make the vision of cross-domain information sharing more achievable, but could also help to make it much more affordable than is currently possible.
The MILS approach starts with system decomposition to isolate security-critical functionality into components that are as small and simple as possible, and whose security policies are likewise as simple as possible. Implementation of components is considered in a separate, second step, which includes the allocation of components to shared physical resources. A MILS system needs to provide assurance that this design and implementation strategy and, in particular, the separate sub-policies of its components and the resource-sharing properties of its physical subsystems, compose to guarantee the security policy required of the overall system. The presentation describes previously published results in MILS research and some of the remaining challenges.
Your Presenter: Carolyn Boettcher is a Senior Principal Multi-disciplinary Engineer at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems with over 30 years experience in embedded software systems research and development for sensor applications. She is currently the Program Manager for the AFRL High Assurance Middleware for Embedded System program. Under HAMES, she is directing advanced research into formal mathematical models for integrating security components and deriving the assurance level of the resulting security architecture. Also under HAMES, she is responsible for the development of a protection profile for network stacks, such as IPv6.
Other research interests include the Object Management Group’s Unified Modeling Language and Model Driven Architecture and real-time, secure CORBA. She was a member of the industry/government team that defined the SysML profile for UML. She is a co- author on numerous publications and presentations at technical conferences, one of which won the best paper award at the 18th Digital Avionics System Conference.
Degree: MA, Mathematics, UCLA
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